[Foundation-l] [Ticket#: 126217-FW] Emily Dickinson poems

[David Gerard]

Delirium (delirium at hackish.org) [050606 02:14]:
> Sj wrote:
 
> >At the second "Signal or Noise" conference, a museum curator stated
> >explicitly that many museums consider their images of their artwork to
> >be copyrightable and copyrighted; they sell postcards, posters, etc of
> >those images. They spend money curating the works of art, and
> >commissioning the photos, and want to be able to recoup that.  (I am
> >more or less repeating verbatim arguments I heard).

> That much is true, if they are "creative works" rather than verbatim 
> copies, which is the gray area.
> Interestingly, not all museums follow the anti-information-dissemination 
> route.  All of Greece's national museums permit free photography without 
> a permit to all visitors, with the caveat that no flash is permitted (to 
> avoid either damaging the pieces or irritating visitors with incessant 
> flashes).


The Victoria & Albert Museum  in London often allows photography, though
without flashes. But with a good digital camera that's not a problem. I
have some fantastic shots from the Vivienne Westwood exhibition I'll be
putting on Wikipedia some time before the Sun goes cold.


- d.