Cary Bass wrote:
teun spaans wrote:
While on holiday in Italy i took some pix of
plants in a botanical garden.
There was no admittance fee, it was publicly accessible.
Can i upload the pix of the plants I took there, or does the owner of the
botanical garden has some form of ownership?
This is not to say that the botanical garden doesn't claim restriction
on the use of images taken within its walls (in my experience,
non-commercial clauses are the norm). In fact, such restrictions are
quite commonplace for botanical gardens, zoological parks, and many
other facilities. This should not be mistaken for a claim of copyright;
and at most they might do is deny you access to their property in the
future.
Actually, I think that a botanical garden could claim copyright on plant
layout or somesuch. I'm not aware that this has ever happened, however,
and of course panorama freedom would apply. Also not a problem when
photographing individual plants, unless they are [[living sculpture]]s.