On 21 Oct 2010, at 20:09, geni wrote:
On 21 October 2010 14:04, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/04044411496/english-heritage-organization-claiming-it-holds-effective-copyright-on-any-and-all-photos-of-stonehenge.shtml>
No. Apart from anything else the stones in the current form may well
be under copyright (last "reconstruction" was 1963). I can't really
comment without seeing the full email and even the origin of this
story doesn't give that:
http://blog.fotolibra.com/?p=445.
I would expect the UKs extremely liberal freedom of panorama laws to
make such images okey but there is always the possibility of a bylaw
or the like.
--
geni
They've clarified their position:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/photography-and-stonehenge/
Basically, they only have a problem with people that take commercial photographs from
their property. Which is an interesting question: taking photographs for Wikipedia means
that they are available for commercial use, so should we be asking uploaders to make sure
they have permission to release their photographs commercially?
Mike Peel