And cheers to you G?enter. Very nicely done. If we are wrangled into translating the low/no cost distribution of images of public domain works into a business plan we could calculate the multiplier effect of dramatically increased eyeballs on the images, especially in educational environments. This leads to more museum visitors which in turn leads to X dollars a visitor spends in shops, restaurants and admissions. Then we estimate the staff time saved and the minimal revenue lost and graph it all. A good economist could drive this into a believable equation that demonstrates more real revenue by open access. As Radiohead showed in my music example, good will and doing the right thing actually can work financially in the cultural community.
Think of all the teachers out there trying to scan our images from books when faced with barriers to receiving good images for the classroom. We want them to come to the source and have respect their time. Amalyah, we?ll discuss this all with G?enter in Portland. Alan ======== Alan Newman National Gallery of Art On 5/27/09 1:03 PM, "G?enter Waibel" <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote: > I really enjoyed the recent exchange about image licensing, and as I re-read > earlier entries of that rich thread, I started copying & pasting some of the > things most interesting to me into a text file. Before I knew it, I had a > little document full of nuggets which I thought very nicely lay out the state > of the discussion around image licensing in the museum community. I've written > a blog posting about all of this at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=692, in case > you'd like to revisit. > > > > Cheers, > > G?nter > > > > *** > > > > G?nter Waibel > Program Officer, OCLC Research > > > > 777 Mariners Island Blvd. Suite 550 > San Mateo CA 94404 > voice: +1-650-287-2144 > > > > G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org > <http://www.hangingtogether.org> > > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
