>Or put it that way: The tax payers pay for (non-profit) museums,
(snip)


Not always. There are innumerable museums which are not government funded
and which are dependent upon earned income.

Even those museums which are government funded are so funded in order to
collect, preserve, exhibit and publish for the public good  --  not for
private benefit  (i.e. an individual or company which  needs a certain
photograph for their own publication).



amalyah keshet
head of visual resources
(photographic services / rights & reproductions)
the israel museum, jerusalem
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