Hi all,

I need to brainstorm with this group on museum incomes.

As you might know we are having some issues [1] with copyright and related rights being claimed on digitisations of public domain works. We are working on fixing this [2] over the legislative path in the EU. The recently adopted mandate of the European Parliament [3], as bad as it was, at least introduced a paragraph (Article 5.1a. & Article 5.1b.) that would solve many of these issues.

As this is a new article introduced by the European Parliament, the Member States attachés in the Council are currently discussing it. One of the worries they seem to be having is not to endager museum incomes. We have shared the opinion that museum shop sales are mostly dependend on location, rather than on exclusivity.

It would, of course, be good to have some analysis/research/data on museum income and exclusivity of works. Therefore I wanted to ask the list:

[1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_photographs

[2]https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/time-to-protect-pd/

[3]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2018-0337