On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> It would be great if recommendations went beyond scholarly re-use to >> re-use by the public (by using open licenses, public domain >> declarations or other legal statements/waivers). > > Yes. Replacing the lost reproduction revenue with greater publicity > will drive up the value of actually visiting the collection and so > increase attendance to the gift shop^D^Dmuseum. Hopefully. ;-)
I'd be *really* interested to see case studies on the value of the rights of digitised images to cultural heritage institutions - and the impact of open licensing and broader re-use on, e.g. merchandise sales, publicity, visitor numbers, etc. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
