[Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

[Yann Forget]

geni wrote:
> 2009/7/18 Yann Forget <yann at 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]
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History
> 
> €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
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