Let's say a non-profit organization could identify its loss of income due
to copyright infringement. Wouldn't that loss have to be weighed against
any advance of the organization's mission? The point of non-profit status
is that a group's mission is beneficial to the public good, and income is
used only to further the mission. If "loss of income" could be equated with
"advance of mission," how has the institution suffered?

Consider a case where the non-profit is also significantly or wholly funded
by public money. I work on exhibits for the National Park Service. Any new
artwork we create or commission for exhibits immediately enters the public
domain. We have to be really, really careful about displaying things for
which someone holds copyright.

Caitlin McQuade
Exhibit Planner
Harpers Ferry Center

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