I'd seen links to this story, about a 2nd grader who was told by a museum guard that she couldn't sketch the paintings because they were copyrighted, and thought "damn! where do they dig up these mouth-breathing idiots?" Then I actually went and read the story. Of course it had to be right here in North Carolina. Whee... At least the NCMA seems to have had enough sense to admit it was a mistake when confronted and to say they won't do it again. Somehow I sense this is related to the "no photos" mindset that Lisa B. Rockmeier was blogging the other day.
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I always thought museum guards were educated about the works they protect, that they were a lot more than just security guards. But then ignorance about copyright is rampant, even (especially) among those who should know better. For instance the head of a major Tarot publisher has made wildly inaccurate claims about the copyright on a major deck published by his company. Apparently he believes that post-1978 US copyright law applies although the work was created a hundred years ago in Britain.
This is very related to the no photos thing! Good grief--isn't it a long standing art school traditiuon that students make sketches of great works at museums as part of their practice?
Anyway, we're really going in a bad direction with the all the no-photos and everything-is-copyrighted bullshit (ooh, hope you don'y mind if I curse in your blog!)
Anywho, can I just tell you that the title of this entry made my day? The Last Supper bit is one of the funniest sketches in the history of sketches, yet I rarely meet anyone else who is familiar with it. I once had the whole thing memorized just so I could play it out in my head whenever I got bored. You rock!