Hello,
a while ago, I was in Paris to photograph the Naval Museum. They have models of ships which can be either * ancient arsenal models (at the time a scale model was considered to be part of the documentation of a ship, along with the plans), but also * modern models of modern ships, and even, more treacherously, * modern models of ancient ships
I'd like to have an educated opinion on what constitutes a work of art in this domain. We have quite a few photographs of recent scale models like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Croiseur-Colbert-p1000458.jpg or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LNG_tanker_model.jpg
Some of the recent models are credited to their authors as if they were sculptures, so there might be a strong case to consider them as original, copyrighted works of art whose photographs cannot be photographed freely.
I have quite a few such images in my pipeline, I'd be glad to know what to do with them.
-- Rama