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Pretty cool: "Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, known by many as the Met, announced that it is placing more than 375,000 images of public-domain works in the museum’s collection under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) dedication."

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/the-met-public-art-creative-commons/

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Ha ha, I've finally out-vagued @Mike Linksvayer on a joke!

Admittedly I misread the original joke and thought the joke was 375k years of copyrighted works liberated, but my vaguely-a-joke was about maybe that number being much larger than reality because much was in the public domain anyway. But upon re-reading the original joke I don't understand how the number of years of art history was reduced by the length of copyright either.

Perhaps the real vaguejoke is how vague of foundation the jokes are sitting on in the first place.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-02-09T20:05:32Z

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Huh, yeah, I got neither the original joke/zing nor the implied vague joke. Percolation under the foundation is going to cause the vague joke dam to burst, flooding all nuance.

Mike Linksvayer at 2017-02-09T20:19:39Z

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Sorry but I got it. Does it worth explaining it? And it is funny because 5,000 is an approximation and 5,000 minus 100 is 4,900, another approximation under appearance of an exact number


Paco Vila at 2017-02-10T07:43:36Z

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@pacovila thanks for the explanation. I did totally miss the 5k - term of copyright reading. Well said.

Mike Linksvayer at 2017-02-10T17:27:02Z