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Aalberts, Babette; Beunen, Annemarie --- "Exploiting museum images" [2002] ELECD 59; in Towse, Ruth (ed), "Copyright in the Cultural Industries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: Copyright in the Cultural Industries

Editor(s): Towse, Ruth

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840646610

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: Exploiting museum images

Author(s): Aalberts, Babette; Beunen, Annemarie

Number of pages: 12

Extract:

14. Exploiting museum images
Babette Aalberts and Annemarie Beunen

14.1 INTRODUCTION1
Images play a very important role as a communication tool in the present-day
business world.2 Through images it is possible to convey information at a fast
pace. Images are often collected and stored in databases. An image database is
a collection of images sometimes combined with text or sound and such like
in paper or electronic form. Image databases can be used for various purposes.
Editors of newspapers or magazines often search for relevant photographs in
archives, agencies are always on the lookout for photographs of beautiful
fashion models, and producers go in search of television pictures in the
archives of broadcasting corporations. As a result of new information
technology, image databases can be stored in a digital form, both offline (for
example, on a CD-ROM) or online on the Internet.
This chapter addresses the role of museums in the new multimedia business
world.3 Museums are aware of the possibilities of gathering and storing
information electronically.4 Large museums are already promoting and selling
CD-ROMs from their collections for educational and entertainment purposes.
The digital developments have also tempted museums to present themselves
on the Internet.5 Through the Internet, they can interest a worldwide public in
images of their collection. Moreover, museums are also increasingly being
approached by database producers, software companies and other firms, which
invest large amounts of money obtaining the rights in the images of the
museum. The opportunity ...