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Data licences

The licences under which you may reuse data and images about the National Gallery Collection.

To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences:

  • Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0) CC0
  • Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY) Creative Commons License
  • Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND) Creative Commons License

In short - if it's an image, CC BY-NC-ND applies; if it's written in sentences, then CC BY applies; otherwise, CC0 applies.

Whilst we do not require you to seek permission or let us know that you're using our data, we'd very much like to hear what you're doing with it. The more people who we can say are using our data, the stronger the case we can make for maintaining and extending these data endpoints. To do this (or if you want to get in touch for any other reason), please drop us a line on hello@nationalgallery.org.uk.