I am very much in favor of private, and crowdsourced, and DIY scanning efforts. However, there is a real value to careful, high quality, accurate scanning of important works, and as the Rodin Museum itself might agree, the provenance of that scan data is important. When the originals are closely held and access is restricted, it's up to the institution to produce that high quality data and publish it.

Act first, think later :)

They might make flying into france really, really really annoying for you or cause you to get all sorts of nasty issues for you when landing in the EU.

This case was about trying to obtain the museum’s own scans under FOI, it’s nothing to do with releasing your own scans.

I’m open to ideas but I don’t see how they could screw you if they’re your own scans. They can’t copyright stolen artifacts from other countries, so they can’t get you on copyright. It’s not their files, so they can’t get you on piracy.

Do it.

Low resolution scans like yours are already available, generally. This case is about the high res ones.

What is a spatial index

Rodin died one century ago, there is no copyright

By the time you get C&D’d it would be far too late.

I’d spend a while thinking about it but I know what my immediate impulse would be.