Head of Mary

© 1982 MMA—Copyright inscription by the Metropolitan Museum of Art This 3D capture was made from a marble resin cast molded directly from the Pietà. A label on the back of the cast reads: This facsimile copy is authorized by the Vatican Museums. It is produced under the supervision of the Reproduction Studio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from direct impression molds of the original sculpture developed by the Department of Scientific Research of the Vatican Museums. I imagine the Vatican and Met took a great deal of care making these molds and casts, and as a good cast is extremely accurate, this model may be the most faithful digital copy of Mary available to the public until the Vatican freely publishes their own 3D survey of the Pietà--if and when that ever happens. The copyright notice the Met scrawled into the back would be funny if it weren't so problematic. Michelangelo's work is so clearly in the public domain that it's hard to imagine what legitimate purpose the Met could have had in mind. No one has a copyright in Michelangelo's work, and IP is screwed up enough without people who should know better making nonsensical or careless claims that chill and thwart the free use of public domain works. —Cosmo [e-mail]@gmail.com© 1982 MMA——由大都会艺术博物馆（Metropolitan Museum of Art）标注的版权声明。本3D采集作品源自直接以《圣殇》（Pietà）原作为蓝本翻制的大理石树脂铸模。该铸模背面附有标注文字：「本复刻复制品获梵蒂冈博物馆（Vatican Museums）授权，由大都会艺术博物馆复刻工作室依据梵蒂冈博物馆科学研究部开发的原雕塑直接翻模制作而成。」 笔者推测，梵蒂冈与大都会艺术博物馆在此次翻模与铸制过程中投入了大量心血；鉴于优质铸模的还原精度极高，在梵蒂冈公开发布其自有《圣殇》3D测绘数据（若真有此可能）之前，该模型或许是公众可获取的最逼真的圣母玛利亚数字复刻件。 若并非存在如此严重的问题，大都会艺术博物馆随手标注在铸模背面的版权声明或许会显得颇为滑稽。米开朗基罗的作品显然已进入公有领域，实在难以理解大都会艺术博物馆此举究竟有何合法依据。 无人可就米开朗基罗的作品主张版权，知识产权体系本已乱象丛生，若再由本应深谙此道的机构作出此类无意义且轻率的版权主张，反而会压制乃至阻碍公有领域作品的合法自由使用。 ——科斯莫·温曼（Cosmo Wenman）@[e-mail]