[OpenGLAM] Open Gallery by Google

Thu Dec 12 07:14:40 UTC 2013

On 11 December 2013 13:23, Joris Pekel <jpekel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah it is a question that is on my mind as well. Last week there was in
> interview in the Guardian with Amid Sood, head of the Google cultural
> institute. A very hyping article and they addressed the rights in a
> paragraph saying:
>
> "The final thing was the rights. Essentially, who owns the rights? We worked
> really hard with our legal teams and the museums so that we could say to
> them: you will always own the rights and you have the right to take down
> content at any time. Once you cross those perceptual, legal barriers, that's
> when it gets interesting; that's when the excitement begins."
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/dec/03/amit-sood-google-cultural-institute-art-project
>
> Would be good to have a more in depth chat with him about this :) Anybody
> happens to have his contact details?

I work for Google. I could ask if he'd like to chat, if you want. In
fact, I'm doing so now.