It really depends on the country you’re in. For instance compare the English and German Wikipedia pages for Gerhard Richter. The English page has plenty of phot

It really depends on the country you’re in. For instance compare the English and German Wikipedia pages for Gerhard Richter. The English page has plenty of photos of his work under fair use while the German one only has links to works hosted on external sites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter There’s a law firm in Germany that crawls the web and tries to collect money from any page that posts an image they haven’t gotten permission to. If you really want to make your brain hurt check out the rules around photos of buildings and the right to panorama. https://euobserver.com/justice/126375 https://euobserver.com/justice/126375