geni wrote:
2009/7/18 Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net:
In the case of the NPG, it is quite clear that the cost of the digitalization is small compared with the potential benefit. There are people and organisations willing to pay to have a copy of these famous portraits. The issue is how to collect the funds without puting a copyright on the images. For this, we need a new business model. Think about how donations was raised to free up Blender.[1]
€100,000 is not a significant amount of money when dealing with trying to digitalize the various UK archives.
Comparing the amount raised for a single (quite obscure) software with what could be raised to digitalize world-famous works of art does not make sense.
Yann