Here's a few links shared with me from some GLAM folks that might be of interest...
Reaping the Benefits of Digitisation: Pilot study exploring revenue generation from digitised collections through technological innovation https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/59616 Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright Overreaching https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2120210 Copyright, Museums and Licensing of Art Images http://www.kressfoundation.org/research/copyright_museums_and_licensing_of_art_images/ cheers, tvol On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:10 AM Stephen LaPorte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dimi, > > This is a fantastic question. I think it's been investigated from > different angles, but there is certainly room to improve and update the > research. > > https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub157/ > > "Revenue matters less than many institutions think it does. Cost recovery > and even, in some cases, net income from commercial licensing activities > are important considerations for museums. Although a past study has shown > that virtually no museum rights and reproductions operation is a profit > center (Tanner and Deegan 2002), and although museums generally acknowledge > that their obligation and desire to provide information about the > collection in as open a manner as possible trumps revenue concerns, revenue > remains a topic of interest to many museums today." > > http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/1001/wipo_pub_1001.pdf > > "Recent developments in business models concerning the production and > distribution of content on the Internet, coupled with a continued > examination by museums of their missions and mandates, has led to an > awareness that the making available of museum images is merely a means to a > commercial end, and not the end in itself. Indeed, in a recent press > release, the Victoria and Albert Museum announced that it would no longer > charge fees for academic and scholarly reproduction and distribution of its > images, claiming that while it earned approximately $250,000 a year from > scholarly licensing programs, the overhead costs associated with licensing > fees rendered their profits much less.140 What is not reported, but what is > suspected, is that the Victoria and Albert Museum determined that it was > smart business to allow its copyright-protected images to be made available > for free, thereby increasing their circulation and delivering significant > promotional opportunities back to the museum. > > This sort of decision-making in academic and educational institutions has > been documented since 2001, when MIT undertook a similar inventory of its > IP, allowing certain types of its academic content to be made available on > the Internet without charge. While contributing to the public good and > furthering the educational mission and mandate of a collecting institution > is primordial, it is argued here that providing unfettered access to museum > images is actually good business." > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:17 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to brainstorm with this group on museum incomes. >> >> As you might know we are having some issues [1] with copyright and >> related rights being claimed on digitisations of public domain works. We >> are working on fixing this [2] over the legislative path in the EU. The >> recently adopted mandate of the European Parliament [3], as bad as it was, >> at least introduced a paragraph (Article 5.1a. & Article 5.1b.) that would >> solve many of these issues. >> >> As this is a new article introduced by the European Parliament, the >> Member States attachés in the Council are currently discussing it. One of >> the worries they seem to be having is not to endager museum incomes. We >> have shared the opinion that museum shop sales are mostly dependend on >> location, rather than on exclusivity. >> >> It would, of course, be good to have some analysis/research/data on >> museum income and exclusivity of works. Therefore I wanted to ask the list: >> >> - Do you know of such research? >> - Do you know of someone who would be interested in doing such >> research? (We might have a grant available.) >> >> Thanks! >> Dimi >> >> >> [1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art_photographs >> [2]https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/time-to-protect-pd/ >> [3] >> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2018-0337 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Publicpolicy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >> > > > -- > Stephen LaPorte > Legal Director > Wikimedia Foundation > > *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical > reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. 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