Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Government Art Collection claims copyright in their digital reproductions of two-dimensional original artworks that are in the public domain.

The Government Art Collection (GAC) does not assert Crown Copyright over images of 2D original artworks in the Collection, where the image has been taken by its employees (i.e. Civil Servants). This is a recent change in approach to copyright assertion, with all affected documentation in the process of being updated.

GAC continues to license images for commercial and non-commercial use through a contractual agreement.