Douglas McCarthy

Micro-museum platform MagnificentH interviewed me for its In Conversation With series.

‘Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene Nor fence of ownership crept in between To hide the prospect of the following eye Its only bondage was the circling sky.’

An analysis of the inconsistencies in UK museums’ copyright claims over digital reproductions of public domain works An Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (detail), 1721, by William Hogarth (1697–1764).

Furnishing fabric ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (detail) of roller-printed cotton chintz, designed by C.

René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850, by Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864) Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 Analysing financial data from museums and trends in the image licensing industry, this post evaluates the

Author’s remix of The Battle of the Pictures, 1745.

Author’s remix of detail of Four judges in heavy wigs, 1758.

Now in its sixth year of existence, the Open GLAM Survey has just undergone a significant overhaul.

What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today?

Mission Manufacturing Co., August 1944.