Sunday, March 01, 2009

Some Museums Really Need to Get A Life!!

I don't understand what it is with museums and photography.

Some museums, due to public outcry, have permitted it as long as it's
non flash and it's not going to be re-used for commercial purposes. Some
even go so far as to require permission to copy a photo taken in their
museum, but how are they going to enforce that?

Some museums that are asinine and don't allow it claim it's a nuisance
for the usually no-good and not very well supported reason or cite
security reasons as an excuse to not allow it. Oh my somebody might take
pictures of the security system. Someone once told me something like
that happened. If these museums had better security, this would not be
an issue.

But it's funny though how some museums will have exhibits about
photography!

I want to create a museum exhibit just so I can allow people to come in
and take pictures and video of it, even if the museum won't allow it
otherwise.

The Canton Museum of Art, oddly enough, has images of their entire
permanent collection on their website, yet you can't go in there and
take your own non-flash photo or video.

Big collective WTF.

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