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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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&r…