<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>Dimi - thanks for pointing this. I also think (as Jan pointed above) -that the major part of the problem stems from the different national regimes in copyrights (and in FoP in particular). Thus, many conflicting decisions could apply on the same issue in different EU countries. And yes, an action that is legal in UK could be illegal in France (in copyright terms) regarding the same copyrighted work: another chance (provided by a FoP issue) to point the inconsistent copyright laws in Europe, </div><div>Plamena </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-02 16:42 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>I came across n interesting piece of text in a German mainstream newspaper that ran an article on Freedom of Panorama. [1] or [2]<br><div><br>According to the text, there has been court action against pictures of the Hunderwasserhaus located in Vienna. [3]<br><br></div><div>Theoretically, both countries enjoy full FoP. [4] The German law, however, has one restriction: pictures need to be taken from a public ground. With other words, not only the building must be located on a public street or square, but also the photographer (effectively making pictures made with a drone in Germany a noFOP). According to the Austrian law, there is no such restriction. <br><br>What happened is, that somebody took a picture from the building across the street. The image is perfectly legal in Ausstria, but the rightsholders of the Hunderwasserhaus in Vienna managed to get German courts to order a stop of distribution in Germanny.<br><br></div><div>Questions arising are:<br></div><ul><li>Are there other countries where a "on the ground" specification exists?</li><li>Can I request the take down of a picture of the Millenium Bridge in London in France?</li><li>How can we best coin this knew piece of information to best suit our advocacy efforts?</li></ul><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Dimi<br></div><div><br>[1]<a href="http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21116446,29726088,item,1.html" target="_blank">http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21116446,29726088,item,1.html</a><br>[2]<a href="http://www.rundschau-online.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21117814,29726088.html" target="_blank">http://www.rundschau-online.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21117814,29726088.html</a><br>[3]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus</a><br>[4]<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Malta" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Malta</a><br></div></div>
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