Museums v business: the growing market for cultural digitisation

As sales of licensed goods soars, battles loom over the use of works by long-dead artists

This summer, the Uffizi gallery threatened to sue Pornhub for using its masterpieces in a classic nudes" video. Some people think of museums as boring, stuffy or dull," posed the adult streaming site. But what if we told you they housed a collection of priceless porn?" The video re-enacted erotic scenes from art history using artworks including Botticelli's Birth of Venus, housed in the Uffizi in Florence.

Pornhub swiftly took down the unauthorised nudes, prompting debate about who controls the copying of cultural artefacts that are long out of copyright and in the public domain.