Further to the earlier comments that to discuss the issue is premature, that's a fair point, but by the looks of it everyone else is wading in.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_threat/Coverage
Tony Harris
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There is quite a lot of material in museums that is still under copyright as well. That copyright does not belong to the institution or the local authority or trust etc that owns the object.
What I'm trying to say is that it does boil down to finance. Do you really want to stop almost all creative production in this country because nobody could afford to live by their creativity??
We do not get a fair return of investment into culture as it is, and this is affecting our culture in so many ways...but that's a whole other debate for another day...
Janet
Janet E Davis
> My twopenneth...
>
> The copyright to objects owned by publicly-funded institutions should
> belong to the public. Any restriction are likely counter to the
> institutional remit and certainly against the public interest.
>
> Phil Blume
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