V&A Zevgolis
Study tools for open collections
Search by artist, by the owner named on the plate, or by technique code. Every open record has a stable link, a ready citation and a clear rights label.
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How to cite
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Rights and reuse
A collector owns the paper, not the copyright. So the records are open to everyone, while each image says what you may do with it.
Title, artist, owner, code, size, year and holder of every public record are open data under CC0. Copy, reuse and publish them without asking.
The copyright stays with the artist, and with their heirs for 70 years after the artist’s death. So every exlibris carries one of three labels.
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Copyright term in the EU: the life of the artist and 70 years after death (Directive 2006/116/EC, article 1).
Open data
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The first file is published on the first day of next month.