[Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

[Teofilo]

I should have said it in my previous message : the first and foremost
priority for France, is that Government-owned museums allow visitors
who paid their entrance ticket to carry a camera and take pictures of
paintings and sculptures when the painters and sculptors died more
than 70 years ago.

In 2005, the Government-owned Guimet museum in Paris, which is famous
for its Chinese and Japanese art collections, asked for 50€ for each
non-commercial-purpose photographic shot and 5000€ for a
commercial-purpose shot  (1).

Telling the Museum administrators that we want to use their pictures
taken by their photographers is not the best message. The best message
is : allow every camera carrying citizen to take his own pictures.

If they want to contribute to Wikipedia with photographs taken by
their photographers, it is OK but it is not a priority.

(1) http://web.archive.org/web/20050305062057/www.museeguimet.fr/homes/home_id20392_u1l2.htm

2009/9/28, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/28  <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
>
> >  From the earlier poster Teofilo:
> >    I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
> >    resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
> > That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
>
>
> That sets it out as a goal, not a demand.
>
> But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the
> sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
> public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
> nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding
> those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats.