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  1. How copyright chaos reigns among the UK’s top cultural institutions

    The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximising profits is basically what companies do. But as previous Walled Culture posts have lamented, there is also a widespread tendency among non-profit cultural institutions – museums, art galleries, libraries etc. – to use copyright […]

    #2d #3d #anarchy #artGalleries #britishLibrary #culture #foia #freedomOfInformation #libraries #museums #nationalGalleriesOfScotland #nationalLibraryOfScotland #publicDomain #tateGallery #uk #wallaceCollection

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  2. We hear our humans are off to London to see the #WallaceCollection DOGS in art exhibition. So we're turning our backs on them in protest at the very thought. #Caturday #WallaceWoofs

  3. I've seen a few curmudgeonly, snooty reviews of the current #WallaceCollection exhibition of dog portraits. "Too sentimental, not great art, Landseer is so passé" etc etc. But just look at Landseer's painting of Prince Albert's #Greyhound, Eos. A thing of beauty.