from The New York Times -
Scorsese Will Distribute Restored Films via Internet
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from hangingtogether.org -
An open Smithsonian, all around
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Two different projects - one arising from the public realm while the other is an off-shoot of prior commercial work - that strongly challenge the relevance of today's (or was that yesterday's) copyright laws which aim to restrict access in the name of commercial rights.

Commercial gains and unfettered access need not (and should not) be mutually exclusive:

"The more audiences see these films, the more they want to see other films like them," Mr. Scorsese said. "Then what happens is the audience changes, which means the movies that are being made change."

And again:

"[O]pen access actually drove sales upward through awareness of the collection which, in turn, generated knowledge about other museum resources."

Is there a lesson in all these for the museum, heritage and preservation "industries"?
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