Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
We could always go the German way and prevent all non-copyleft images.
PS. I just wanted to check I was accurate in making this statement. I decided Coca Cola would be a good article to use to check (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Cola) as they are presumably unable to display the logo. They do show the logo in the form of photographs of the side of lorries showing the logo and practically nothing else. Surely such a photo can't be claimed to be copyleft?
In germany they have a legal concept called "right of panorama" which appears to be intended to address cases of incidental inclusion (as we'd know them in the US). The idea is that the fact that the populated world is saturated with copyrighted works shouldn't inhibit you from taking pictures in public...
In the US much of this would be covered by the "scènes à faire" doctrine.
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