discussion in the image licensing session is re-hashing a number of issues we've been thinking about for a long time:

• the ability to control use
• strategies for limiting use (low res. distribution)
• the need to restrict use
• the monetary return for a use
• the need for creators to control use of their work
• the need for creators to be reimbursed for their work (the act of creation)
• the dysfunction of mutually charging fees, museum to museum
• the need to standardize terminology and usage
• the doomsday scenario (what if you don't license?)
• the ancillary values of widely licensing works (so that they are seen, known)
• the chilling impact of licensing on scholarly publishing
• the economic hardship museums themselves face from licensing works
• the relatively few mis-uses of widely licensed works
• the concept of 'moral rights' of the creator (for attribution, and for a share of the profilts?)
• the costs in the system of administrating rights (and determining the rights holder, and the problem of orphan works)
• the need to maintain relationships with artists (and therefore respect their rights)
• available services for policing
• hybrid markets, multiple sources of income
• challenges of managing multiple licenses with multiple terms
• creative commons licensing
• layers of rights in works and their reproductions

we still don't seem to be able to have a discussion that separates the concepts of licensing and charging fees, of appropriate use and reasonable return, of mission-driven activities and un-related economic activity.