[OpenGLAM] Revenue from image sales

Sebastiaan ter Burg terburg at wikimedia.nl
Sun Oct 20 20:00:07 UTC 2013


thanks Joris! This kind of information is very useful.

Best,

Sebastiaan


2013/10/17 Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at kb.nl>

> Andrew Gray just forwarded this really interesting article, thought I'd
> share wider!
>
> "Related: The Morgan’s tax returns include a detail most museums fail
> to break out: How much money the museum makes from photographic rights
> to art images in its collection. In the most recent year for which
> returns are available, the Morgan made $125,000 from images of its
> art, a figure in-line with previous years. That’s four-tenths of one
> percent of its revenue. Eliminating fees on copyright-clear images
> seems like a very, very small price to pay for mission fulfilment."
>
>
> http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2013/10/the-correlation-between-free-and-digital-open-access/
>
> Best,
>
> Joris
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