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An American's fierce fight to reproduce sculptures of the Rodin Museum for free

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14 pointsabetusk8 comments

Rodin left his plaster casts to the museum and authorized them to make up 12 copies of each (they've already made all 12 of The Thinker).

If that was the intention of the artist, my opinion would be more towards they break the molds and delete the scans, instead of allowing infinite copies.

Rodin died in 1917. There's been over 100 years to carry out his wishes with his works. His works are now in the public domain.

Regardless of what you think should have happened to the works, they are now in the public domain and being gate kept by the museum administrators. The museum itself is state owned and so should serve the public.

Articles with hard paywalls and no workarounds available (archive.is does not work for this) are not allowed on HN. I would love to read more about this though.

From the HN FAQ:

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

(Emphasis added)

I found an older article on the subject https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/03/05/musee-rodin-could...

and the man himself has a site: https://cosmowenman.com/

> But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

I wasn’t complaining, just stating a fact. I am very familiar with the constant complaints about paywalls, and 99% of those complaints are on posts which already have an archive link posted for people to read.

I personally do not have any issue with websites choosing to paywall their content, so I have no motivation to complain about the existence of paywalls.

The current link (as of one hour post your comment) goes straight through to a full article in French for myself in Australia: https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/le-combat-ac...

The archive.is snapshot ( https://archive.md/mBig8 ) is of a partial article with a subscribe nag ... this suggests the issue is cookies and|or geolocation.

From Los Angeles, that link leads to a hard pay wall.

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