On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 09:32, Louis Porter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am the photographer at the Postal Museum here in London. We are currently looking at restructuring our image usage fees
> for material from our archive.
Please review the case study from the Rijksmuseum, who found that
making large numbers of high-resolution images of objects in their
collection freely available - that is, copyright-free - actually
enhanced their outreach, improved the quality of the representation of
their collection online, and did no harm to their income.
Many other museums, such as the Paris Museums [2] and Smithsonian [3],
have followed suit.
[1] https://creativecommons.org/2014/07/30/rijksmuseum-case-study-sharing-free-high-quality-images-without-restrictions-makes-good-things-happen/
https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Democratising
the Rijksmuseum.pdf
[2] https://petapixel.com/2020/01/28/paris-museums-put-60000-historic-photos-online-copyright-free/
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21153208/smithsonian-institution-museums-free-images-libraries-dc
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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