[okfn-discuss] BBC to put 200,000 oil paintings online

Wed Jan 28 18:33:01 UTC 2009

Reported today that the BBC is going to put 200,000 oil paintings
online and will 'open up' the Arts Council's vast film archive:

  BBC to put nation's oil paintings online
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/bbc-digitalmedia

I'd be interested to hear how they are going to license this material
and how they will publish it. They are partnering with the Public
Catalogue Foundation. I've writted to the PCF in the past. They derive
income from selling hard copy catalogues and do not seem to be keen on
allowing third party re-use of their material:

<quote>
The contents (but not the painting reproductions), design and
underlying code of this website remain the intellectual property of
The Public Catalogue Foundation at all times. You may not use or
reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce the content on this web
site for any reason without written permission from The Public
Catalogue Foundation.

Paintings are reproduced courtesy of the participating collections and
the copyright owners. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to
use or reproduce the painting reproductions on this website without
written permission from the relevant collections and copyright owners
where appropriate.

Use of The Public Catalogue Foundation Content

You may retrieve and display content from this website, print
individual pages on paper and store such pages in electronic form on
your mobile telephone for your personal, non-commercial use. Except as
expressly set out above, you may not reproduce, modify or in any way
commercially exploit any of the content.
</quote>

J.