One thing puzzles me about the whole digital publishing/images on WEB
debate: Aren't most images in museums--particularly works of art--in the
public domain? Museums may hold the copyright to slides and
transparencies of works, but is there anything preventing someone from
photographing works of art (as many museums allow) and posting them
on the internet? True, these images would not have the quality of
professional photographs shot by the Museums themselves, but many
may consider them better than nothing.