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Sunday, December 03, 2006
All hail the V&A...
...for having the good sense to drop reproduction fees for their images for educational and academic purposes. Attempts by museums to maintain copyright on straight photographic reproduction of works that were in some cases created 1000s of years ago was always stretching copyright law...and indeed was recognized as invalid under US law in Bridgeman vs Corel (1999). But this hasn't seemed to stop museums from attempting to claim "reproduction fees" and etc, and the hassle and expense of getting permissions was a disaster for art history academic publishing and teaching.
The V&A's new policy will lose them some 100,000 pounds of revenue, but will also reduce the costs of administering access control. Art historical research and education will gain enormously, and this will re-center the V&A as a key resource for educators, students and researchers.Technorati Tags: photography, Copyright
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