Some older links regarding museums' licensing incomes:

"The most recent [as of 2005] study on this was commissioned by the Mellon Foundation and delivered by Simon Tanner for King's Digital Consultancy Services, Reproduction charging models and rights policy for digital images in American art museums, 2004, which pointed to 56 of 100 museums with budgets over $10 million receiving less than $50,000 annually from digital rights transactions. [...] The Tanner report cited above notes, p. 35, 'Everyone interviewed wants to recoup costs but almost none claimed to actually achieve or expected to achieve this.' And 'Even those services that claimed to recoup full costs generally did not account fully for salary costs or overhead expenses.'"

And in 2009 I took a look at the UK National Portrait Gallery's published figures, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-13/Open_letter#The_institutions.27_needs ("selling food and allowing parties in the buildings owned by the NPG generated much more income (£611,000) than selling reproduction rights for the pictures owned by the NPG (£378,000), but both are just a very small part of the NPG's overall income.")
("The majority of the licensing fees income goes to the cost of raising those fees itself.")

Am Mi., 17. Okt. 2018 um 06:18 Uhr schrieb Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com>:
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:
  • Do you know of such research?
  • Do you know of someone who would be interested in doing such research? (We might have a grant available.)
Thanks!
Dimi



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