Taco Dibbits’ words of wisdom
June 3rd, 2013Of all the digital image policies of the world’s great art collections, the Rijksmuseum‘s clearly make most sense.
“We’re a public institution, and so the art and objects we have are, in a way, everyone’s property…” “‘With the Internet, it’s so difficult to control your copyright or use of images that we decided we’d rather people use a very good high-resolution image of the Milkmaid from the Rijksmuseum rather than using a very bad reproduction…”
Taco Dibbits (director of collections at the Rijksmuseum)
Read this NYT article for more information.
Amen.
