Fubding may be a big deal for museums in the abstract, but how much funding do these museums raise from selling "licenses" to reproduction of these public domain works? It can't be that big of a deal, and museums can still request payment for endorsed reproductions (basically a quasi-sponsorship arrangement targeted at high-profile reusers of these works, driven by signaling goals - "we pay for the museum's endorsement, this shows we're serious!" and broadly-aligned incentives - "the more reproductions the better, for both the museum and the reuser") without any need for quasi-copyright claims.
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