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The huge piles of revenue? > SPK confirmed it had earned less than 5,000 euro, total, from marketing the Nefertiti scan, or any other scan for that matter. SPK
by squigz 2y ago
The huge piles of revenue?
> SPK confirmed it had earned less than 5,000 euro, total, from marketing the Nefertiti scan, or any other scan for that matter. SPK also admitted it did not direct even that small revenue towards digitization, explaining that it was not obliged to do so. In the nearly 10 years since it had created the Nefertiti scan, SPK had completely failed to commercially exploit the valuable data idling on its hard drives.
- whimsicalism 2y agoNot sure if you are intentionally missing the distinction I’m making? Your comment just restates the GP
- squigz 2y agoI'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make, no.
- whimsicalism 2y agoRevenue from “marketing the 3d scans” is not the same as “revenue from selling replicas” and it is the latter that they are trying to protect, not the sale of the scans directly
- squigz 2y agoMy impression from that article was that '3D scans' and 'replicas' were grouped together.
- whimsicalism 2y agoYes, I agree the article very intentionally tries to give that impression, true
- javawizard 2y agoAm I to understand that impression is incorrect then? Where might one look to ascertain the actual revenues involved?
- mandevil 2y agoRight, no one is buying the digital scans. But tons of people buy physical replicas- I have been a volunteer at a different museum and our physical models of our most famous artifacts were very nice money makers for us, so I presume they would be for them as well. And using that digital scan you can make your own competing physical replica. Which is why the museum doesn't really want to make it easy for any 3D printer to compete with them.
- cortesoft 2y agoYou could just buy one replica and scan it yourself.