> " My question was not so much about copyright, as clearly any
> researcher who photographs a museum artifact owns copyright in
> that image. "
>
> Sorry, not so clearly at all.  Court case (sorry don't have the
> citation) ruled that such a photograph cannot be copyrighted if
> it is just a reproduction of the original work.  You have to have
> something else going on - like people standing in front of it.

As far as I am aware, that's incorrect. Please cite the cases.

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