A backlash against public online image archives?

Are we seeing the beginnings of a backlash against the copyright and usage rights on publicly owned (or quasi-publicly owned) online image archives?

Public.resource.org has written to the [American] Smithsonian Institute about their claimed copyright ownership of images.

Dan Lockton points out the English Heritage website’s cynical disabling of the right click function, using javascript.

Any others? (Comments/links to frankie@frankieroberto.com)

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