but the debate about copyrights and reproductions is more open than ever
An article by Colin Marshall
appeared on the Open Culture website, about the trend of the biggest
players among the Museums worldwide to make their digitized
collections freely accessible and downloadable online.
This is certainly an opportunity but it also opens a debate about copyrights and reproductions.
“Many rights-holders, including certain
museums, have effectively decided that if you can’t beat the mechanical
reproducers, join ‘em.” “With the Internet, it’s so difficult to control your copyright or use of images,” Siegal [Nina Siegal, New York Times] quotes the Rijksmuseum’s director of collections as saying. “We
decided we’d rather people use a very good high-resolution image of
[Vermeer's] ‘Milkmaid’ from the Rijksmuseum rather than using a very bad
reproduction.”
Siegal goes on to mention the efforts of Washington’s National Gallery of Art, which has so far made super high-resolution images of 25,000 works freely available on NGA Images,
a site that describes itself as “designed to facilitate learning,
enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.” You can browse the images by
collection — French galleries, self-portraits, music — view the most
recent additions, or pull up the works of art most frequently requested
by others. Leonardo’s portrait of the Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de’
Benci, seen up top, has proven particularly popular, as has Claude
Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge just above.
But does all this bear out [the] concerns about mechanical reproduction cheapening the original aura of a work? “I don’t think anyone thinks we’ve cheapened the image of the ‘Mona Lisa,’” an NGA spokeswoman said to Siegal. “People
have gotten past that, and they still want to go to the Louvre to see
the real thing. It’s a new, 21st-century way of respecting images.”
Read the full article by Colin Marshall and related links here on Open Culture.
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net
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