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This article seems rather perfunctory tbh. Funding is quite a big deal for museums, and the assumption put forward that open access is inherently better than an
by Mindwipe 7y ago
This article seems rather perfunctory tbh. Funding is quite a big deal for museums, and the assumption put forward that open access is inherently better than anything else the museum can do with the money it raises by licenses is completely unsupported.
- 0815test 7y agoFubding may be a big deal for museums in the abstract, but how much funding do these museums raise from selling "licenses" to reproduction of these public domain works? It can't be that big of a deal, and museums can still request payment for endorsed reproductions (basically a quasi-sponsorship arrangement targeted at high-profile reusers of these works, driven by signaling goals - "we pay for the museum's endorsement, this shows we're serious!" and broadly-aligned incentives - "the more reproductions the better, for both the museum and the reuser") without any need for quasi-copyright claims.