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French museum refused to allow public access to secret 3D scans

The "smokescreen of legal and technological nonsense" could offer other public officials the tools to conceal any common digital public resource.

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Oct 18, 2024
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Digital render by Cosmo Wenman of
Digital render by Cosmo Wenman of "Sleep" scan musée Rodin was forced to publish.

Top public museums have the artifacts and they have the resources to make high-resolution 3D scans of them. For all its historical sins, the British Museum offers hundreds of downloads under Creative Commons licenses. The Smithsonian has thousands of public domain 3D scans …

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