“The court gave the ministry and museum two months to present their defense, a deadline they have, as of this writing, missed by over three months.”
Rodin’s works are public domain, and the Rodin Museum took public money to scan them. A Paris tribunal ordered the scans released in April 2023 and told the museum to pay Wenman €1,500. More than a year later it has published nothing and paid nothing. A state museum is defying a court order to keep copies of public-domain art to itself.