The conversation gets quite upsetting when museums use copyrights to restrict the distribution of knowledge and remixes derived from their physical and virtual holdings (how can a thousand-year-old artwork have a copyright, anyway?). Museums offer many arguments when trying to prohibit re-use in the public domain: They want to ‘preventcommercialization’ (except in their gift shops, of course), or even to protect someone or something from the “bad taste” of us peasant people and our shameless remixing I am not joking.{2}