The Met's online free-for-all

Today (7 February), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that over 375,000 images of works of art from its collection are now available online for unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use in a new initiative, Open Access. Increasing public access to the collection has been a key priority for the museum over the past decade, Thomas Campbell, the museums director and chief executive, said at a press conference today. While the museums collection includes two million works sp