Museums and Copyrights

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Museums and Copyrights

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07-25-2008, 03:18 PM

Photography can sometimes be the least of your problems. I know of one academic and her husband who were detained and questioned by police after going into a small provincial French museum where they spotted some really interesting stuff, about which they proceeded to take notes. The explanation that they were academics interested in artefacts took a long time to sink in, rather than the authorities' preferred interpretation of their being criminal masterminds about to plan the most daring museum raid in history. This was all long before the current fear of witchcraft - sorry, terrorism - that plagues us so I shudder to think what would have happened these days.

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Museums and Copyrights - by Eleatic Guest - 07-25-2008, 01:26 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by D B Campbell - 07-25-2008, 01:42 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Jona Lendering - 07-25-2008, 02:05 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Eleatic Guest - 07-25-2008, 02:15 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Tarbicus - 07-25-2008, 02:20 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Eleatic Guest - 07-25-2008, 02:37 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Memmia - 07-25-2008, 02:55 PM

Re: Museums and Copyrights - by Jona Lendering - 07-25-2008, 03:07 PM