I just photographed individual plants, so layout does not come into
question.
There was no sign with a copyright claim or remark about photographs at the
entrance - in fact it was hard to find an entrance at all. The only sign we
found was a wooden sign "botanical garden" - that direction.
In hindsight, there may have been a text or direction on the walls of the
refugio (mountain hut), some 100 meters away, but we were glad to have
located the botanical garden at all, and didnt think of it.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
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.
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