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>We should have good 3D scans of every museum item of note by now and available for free for the public. How can we sell this concept to the boards, trustees, c

• logfromblammo 11y ago
  Many of which are considered creative works in the public domain. We ought to be very cautious when using public laws to enable otherwise non-viable business models to exist. There is a large variation in museum attitudes toward amateur reproduction, largely because there is no international consensus on the correct balance between a museum's duty to remain financially solvent as curator of valuable antiquities and its duty to maintain the broadest possible access to the public for works in the public domain. It is likely that a public law having nothing to do with copyright could encourage quality professional digitization of works in the public domain, by extending limited monopoly privilege on the digital copy until the cost of creating it can be reasonably recouped. If a museum cannot recover the costs of making quality scans, it won't make them. But copyright is the wrong way to go about recovering costs.