But that £400,000 (actually £378,000) represents about 12% of their overall income (ignoring investments) - again, assuming that I'm reading things correctly?
I would suggest that this is a significant chunk of money if we assume that the real issue here is about sustainability rather than copyright per se.
Andy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dan Zambonini
Sent: 16 July 2009 09:45
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Subject: Re: NPG / Wikimedia
> Letting everyone have access to the digital images & do with them as they wish
> could only possibly happen if the institutions that look after the collections
> were given enough public money not to need the licensing fees that they would
> lose; and the copyright owners were also compensated.
>
> Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to make up the funding gap in the
> meantime?
According to the NPG Annual Report for 2007/2008 (assuming I'm reading it
correctly), they made £130,000 'profit' (from £400,000 revenue) from the
Picture Library. According to an FOI request on picture licensing, this year
was also their best ever year for licensing to third party websites (making
almost £19,000 in revenue, almost twice what they achieved in 2008/2009).
I'm not at all condoning the actions of the Wikipedia user, but it does seem
like we're possibly assuming that picture licensing plays a bigger role in
the gallery revenue than it actually does.
Dan
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