I should have said it in my previous message : the first and foremost priority for France, is that Government-owned museums allow visitors who paid their entrance ticket to carry a camera and take pictures of paintings and sculptures when the painters and sculptors died more than 70 years ago.
In 2005, the Government-owned Guimet museum in Paris, which is famous for its Chinese and Japanese art collections, asked for 50€ for each non-commercial-purpose photographic shot and 5000€ for a commercial-purpose shot (1). Telling the Museum administrators that we want to use their pictures taken by their photographers is not the best message. The best message is : allow every camera carrying citizen to take his own pictures. If they want to contribute to Wikipedia with photographs taken by their photographers, it is OK but it is not a priority. (1) http://web.archive.org/web/20050305062057/www.museeguimet.fr/homes/home_id20392_u1l2.htm 2009/9/28, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > 2009/9/28 <wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk>: > > > From the earlier poster Teofilo: > > I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full > > resolution pictures of Public Domain works. > > That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible. > > > That sets it out as a goal, not a demand. > > But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the > sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus, > public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see > nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding > those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
