Does your organization have an archive of historical photos, sheet music, negatives, slides or other visual artifacts? Are you, as a board member, archivist or collection owner, investigating ways to leverage your collections in order to generate a sustainable revenue stream for your organization, without giving up control over your physical artifacts or usage rights?
This article shares strategies for digitizing your organization’s historical archives and monetizing the resulting digital images. It also shares real-world data on the historical image licensing market, as well as details on how much your organization can expect to make by digitizing and licensing its visual collections.Website