2009/3/30 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, The archives and museums I am talking to have content that will be extremely valuable to us. Your suggestion that archives and museums is based on a comparison to someone who did not do any research. Now when we can get something like 40.000 media files and you compare it to an occasional upload you do not take into account that some of these archives have a systematic coverage of events, places or developments. If you think we can do better at finding copyright holders I am sure that we are welcome to do so.
The problem is from the description it is likely that a fair chunk of their author unknown stuff is non free. If you've got a non trivial number of copyright holders finding you and complaining that with regards to items that have been in your archives for years it means you have a lot of non free stuff.