Riana:
However, the law "does not forbid local or
international artists from
profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and
Egyptian monuments from all eras - as long as they don't make exact
copies."
"Artists have the right to be inspired by everything that surrounds
them, including monuments," he said.
Potential fine print argument - if you make lighting, camera angles,
perspective etc unique enough, you can claim copyright? I'm not so
great with derivative works, perhaps someone could clarify that. I
wonder if we'll have a lot of photos looking up the Sphinx's nose at
twilight, now :-s
If they make explicit reference to drawings as an exception to this law
it's well because they are targeting pictures. Imho, this law can be
compare with new picture prohibition rule at Louvre Museum while they
will not applied it strictly (Egyptian government or Louvre have no
benefit to prohibit all pictures), but they will use this law at handle
some particular situations.
Any way, it's really a scandal to try to steal a world heritage! I can
understand they increase the fees for visiting monument, but try to get
copyright on 5000 yo monuments it's really unacceptable.
Aoineko
PS: Sorry for my poor English.