Perhaps look at the case from another perspective.
Ask if, since they used public money to create these, what public benefit was produced by it.
If you can have them admit, or can prove, no public benefit, it's misspent public funds.
If it's misspent public funds then its public reimbursement at the least for all the works they have scanned as a minimal response.
You could argue the case the directors are liable for incompetence, or possibly criminality for knowingly misappropriating the public funds or contempt of court for earlier cases.
When faced with this as a more serious charge, the museum may then choose to simply release the documents to settle the case. You may not even have to prove anything.
IANAL but have been involved in (other country) public council appeals.
I presume that when you read the article, you missed the part about the "written applications for public funding to produce [the] scans" -- which the author alleges the Rodin Museum falsely denied having submitted?
SillyUsername · · focus · HN ↗
Ask if, since they used public money to create these, what public benefit was produced by it.
If you can have them admit, or can prove, no public benefit, it's misspent public funds.
If it's misspent public funds then its public reimbursement at the least for all the works they have scanned as a minimal response.
You could argue the case the directors are liable for incompetence, or possibly criminality for knowingly misappropriating the public funds or contempt of court for earlier cases.
When faced with this as a more serious charge, the museum may then choose to simply release the documents to settle the case. You may not even have to prove anything.
IANAL but have been involved in (other country) public council appeals.
whiplash451 · · focus · HN ↗
It is self-funded. Public, but self-funded.
So this has nothing to do with misspent public money.
The Rodin Museum is a piece of jewel in Paris that exists only because Rodin himself decided for things to be run that way on his deathbed.
The wish of the artist overrules the wishes of random people that "consume" his work.
t0mpr1c3 · · focus · HN ↗