I've been to at least one museum where they were pretty upfront about
the copyright motive: photography was permitted but you had to promise
not to publish the photos you took (and not block anybody else's path
with your tripod). I don't recall whether flash was permitted or not.
In the Smithsonian, restrictions on photography vary from one exhibit
to the next (again, I don't recall off the top of my head whether
flash is allowed). As far as I could tell, you could take pictures of
their permanent exhibits, but some travelling exhibits owned by other
organizations disallowed photography altogether. (And they were both
vigilant and polite about enforcing that -- the guard barely seemed to
take notice of my *istD when I walked in, but as soon as somebody else
lifted their point-and-shoot to aim it, the guard was right there
reminding them that wasn't allowed in that particular exhibit.)
OTOH, I've been to museums where they claimed that their reason for
prohibiting photography was that even _available_light_ photography
somehow damaged pigments! Hmph!
-- Glenn
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