Official term
In Copyright
The institution has determined that the item is in copyright and has a basis for making it available, such as ownership, permission, or a copyright exception.
Version 1.0
Open the official termFor visitors
The item remains in copyright, and the institution has recorded a basis for making it available. Ordinary museum display and collection documentation may proceed within that basis; public reuse follows the detailed rights note.
Museum practice
These readings describe how the Museum normally presents, studies, publishes, and cares for a lawfully acquired work. The exact rights record, artist agreements, and applicable law continue to govern each object.
- Display the work
Ordinary museum practice
This statement already records that the institution has a basis for making the item available. Display may proceed within that recorded basis and any artist or lender instructions.
- Publish online
Ordinary museum practice
A collection page and faithful identification view may be published under the institution's recorded permission, ownership, or copyright exception. The page should describe that basis.
- Publish in print
Contextual museum use
A proportionate image tied to criticism, cataloguing, or scholarship is common museum publishing. Full-page, cover, decorative, and commercial reproductions receive closer review.
- Make preservation copies
Ordinary museum practice
Controlled preservation copies and migrations are part of collection care when supported by the recorded permission, applicable law, or the institution's stewardship responsibility.
- Share an adaptation
Separate permission or legal basis
The statement does not authorize a public remix or new artistic adaptation. Use permission or a specific legal exception.
- Make commercial use
Separate permission or legal basis
Merchandise, advertising, image licensing, and implied endorsement need permission or another clear legal basis.
What the Museum can do
- Use the statement beside an in-copyright item while the detailed record identifies the Museum's actual basis for display and reuse.
What remains outside the term
- This statement gives the public information about status; it does not give the public a license to reuse the item.
Exact English legal code
This entry is a status, mark, or case description rather than a public license. Its official definition is linked above.