If we want to build up our image library of lost monuments then WLM is perhaps not the best place to start. Rather than a photo hunt for what is available today we need a hunt through attics for things available from the past. Much was destroyed in the war, and quite a bit since. Even where buildings survived and were restored often the stained glass windows were lost. But there are copyright issues when the photographers died in recent decades. I would like to load some of my grandfather's photographs, and I think that my Mother would have sole inheritance rights to his copyrights, but with one of her uncles it gets more complex.
I was wondering if somebody had (or was willing to prepare) a list of
monuments around the world that could have been photographed
during WLM 2011 timeline but no longer exist.
I think it would make for a great piece of news for release during the
contest, in the lines of [[en:Wikipedia:There is a deadline]] essay, to
motivate participation.
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