Hey All,

There is also this study by Effie Kapsalis at the Smithsonian:
http://s.si.edu/openSI . It highlights a few case studies of how business
got better from institutions in the course of doing "open" with
collections.

Cheers,

Alex

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:29 AM James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the UK Lord Freyberg
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_Freyberg,_3rd_Baron_Freyberg)
> has been doing some campaigning in this area.
>
> He secured a debate in the House of Lords last month on the question,
> which includes some data
>
> https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-09-12/debates/A4C8C41E-6523-4052-B141-8F260B980401/MuseumsAndGalleries#contribution-C444B397-6BD7-4546-9505-C7CD482CAF4A
>
> Unfortunately, most of those speaking on the other side of the debate,
> despite presumably having been briefed by institutions with which they
> were connected, were very short on data, typically going no further than
> saying museums and galleries need income from all the different sources
> they can get.
>
> Here are a couple of older reports from November last year, when
> Freyberg first put down some questions on the subject:
>
>
> https://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/4891_UK_art_historians_call_for_abolition_of_image_fees_ctd
>
>
> https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums-right-to-charge-image-fees-is-called-into-question
>
> He has been continuing to ask written questions to drag out some more
> hard data:
>
>
> https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers//?page=1&max=20&questiontype=AllQuestions&house=lords&member=2593
>
> (see eg 16 October 2018)
>
> ... though so far the DCMS seems to have avoided giving him very much back.
>
> He's somebody who it may be worth being in contact with, if we're doing
> work in this area, as he's clearly plugged in to a broader campaign in
> the UK, and may be able to get some information from the UK IPO as to
> how discussions are going, and what position the UK have been taking.
> (As a rule the UK IPO, coming from a patent background, can be a bit
> more liberal on IP policy issues, aware of IP bringing both costs and
> benefits; the DCMS tend to be somewhat less so; but I think it is the UK
> IPO that has the policy lead on the Copyright Directive negotiations.)
>
>    -- James.
>
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