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"Back in 2019, Techdirt wrote about a fascinating case involving a bogus CC
license on a 3D scan of a 3000-year-old bust of Nefertiti. The person at the
heart of the saga was the artist and open access activist Cosmo Wenman. His web
site has some background on what he calls his "freedom of information
projects":
For more than a decade, museums around the world have been making
high-quality 3D scans of important sculptures and ancient artifacts. Many
institutions freely share those 3D scans with the public, allowing us to
view, copy, adapt, and experiment with the underlying works in ways that
have never before been possible. But some keep their scans out of public
view, and I've been trying to help them see the light.
Following his success in liberating the 3D scan of Nefertiti, Wenman is now
trying to do the same with 3D scans of the works of the great French sculptor
Auguste Rodin. Many of these scans have been created by the Musée Rodin in
Paris. There is a long and entertaining article (in the original French and an
English translation - pdf) about Wenman's pursuit of the 3D scans, and of the
Musée Rodin's refusal to share them. Wenman took an interesting tack, claiming
that the museum's 3D scans were documents subject to France's freedom of
information (FOIA) laws. It worked"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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