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good shout, I think some recent typography changes made the bolding more subtle on mobile. I've pushed an update underlining them and it should be live momentarily!

lol thank you other Parker Higgins, always a pleasure to run into you here

Blog post author here! Always happy to see people looking at and reading about these paintings. Happy to answer any questions or job offers people here may have!

I'm speculating a bit here, but I suspect that answer reflects a practically risk-averse read of the same case, for two reasons. One is that, as a district court opinion, Bridgeman isn't _necessarily_ binding federal precedent. (I don't want to overstate that point, because Bridgeman is well established and has been found persuasive by other courts. Still, given that this site appears to distribute the resulting ebooks itself, I assume their appetite for risk here is pretty small.)

Even following Bridgeman though, there is a teeny bit of analysis that you have to do to determine that the reproduction is a faithful photographic copy of the original. In most cases that's straightforward, but again, if you really want to limit risk and as in this case your application doesn't require a particular image, it might be worth cutting out that analysis altogether and going with media that is simply outside of the range of copyright terms.

Includes all registered federal, tribal, state/territory, interstate, independent intrastate, and city/county domains.

I couldn't share a namespace with a better guy!

Really lucked out here that .gov is explicitly enumerated in a published list. For basically any other TLD your first (big!) issue will be finding such a list.