Michael Geist, the keynote speaker from Museums and the Web 2008, has a great feature in the BBC today. Highlights from the article:
- In 2006 the V&A museum in London made all digitized images from its collection free for reproduction in academic journals and books
- The National Gallery of Canada actually charges more for public domain images than copyright ones, an average of $379 (canadian).
- Many museums around the world use restrictive and expensive licensing fees for images in the public domain.
Geist was a great speaker on these issues and I'm excited to see some of his ideas make it into the mainstream media with regards to museums.
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