"Thank you for your interest in the Museum of the City of New York. It is our understanding that the 1886 painting by Edward Moran (1829-1901), Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World (The Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty), is in the public domain according to copyright law in the United States. The Museum uses Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center's resource, Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, to make these determinations. Best wishes..."

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse Autor je umro 1901., tako da je ovo djelo u javnom vlasništvu u zemlji podrijetla i u drugim zemljama s rokom trajanja autorskih prava za života autora plus 100 godina ili manje. Ovo je djelo u javnom vlasništvu u SAD-u zato jer je objavljeno (ili registrirano pri Uredu za autorska prava Sjedinjenih Američkih Država) prije 1. siječnja 1929. Ova datoteka je identificirana kao slobodna od poznatih ograničenja po zakonu o autorskim pravima, uključujući sva povezana i srodna prava. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.