Is “Fish hook” in the public domain?

Yes. “Fish hook” is public domain and released under CC0, so it is free to download and reuse for any purpose, including commercially, with no permission needed.

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Yes. As a CC0 public-domain work it can be used commercially, modified and redistributed with no fee and no attribution required.

“Fish hook” is a public-domain (CC0) artwork, free to view, download and reuse for any purpose. It is catalogued from the open collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Fish hook

Title	Fish hook
Medium	Bone
Classification	Bone
Origin	Japan Japan
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Rights	Public domain (CC0)

Subjects: Marine & aquatic life

About this artwork

“Fish hook” is a work of unattributed authorship. It is executed in bone and classified as bone. In this archive it sits within the marine & aquatic life tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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