Hi all I looked at this a few years ago for the UK and most of the national museums refused to give the information in an Freedom of Information request or didn't calculate it
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/cheryl_hall One exception is the Natural History Museum who published it in their annual accounts (they refused the FOI but made the info public) which shows a loss of £155,000 over 5 years (this would be larger but they included filming location profits in the calculation). Thanks On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, 20:33 Timothy Vollmer, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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