alt Hacker NewsArticle is not useful because it does not bother to motivate why the scans were requested or why anyone other than a legalistic, formalistic person would consider them administrative documents. The author assumes all this is obvious and it isn't.
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swiftcoder • today at 10:56 AM
The author reasonably assumes that his audience may have been following this over the last few years (it has been featured on HN at multiple stages).
For example, https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/16/auguste-rodins-sculpture...
levocardia • today at 8:46 AM
Based on the other posts it sounds like the point is to feed it into the maw of AI generated art engines
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The first several paragraphs of my previoius story, about the lead up to the appeal, explain my motivation for establishing and promoting public acess to 3D scans of public domain cultural heritage works: https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/secret-3d-scans-in-the-fr...
As does my presentation, "The Archetypes Burst In": https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/the-archetypes-burst-in