[Commons-l] o rly?

Aoineko aoineko at gamma.ocn.ne.jp
Tue Jan 1 16:54:52 UTC 2008


Riana:
> However, the law "does not forbid local or international artists from 
> profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and 
> Egyptian monuments from all eras - as long as they don't make exact 
> copies."
>
> "Artists have the right to be inspired by everything that surrounds 
> them, including monuments," he said.
>
> Potential fine print argument - if you make lighting, camera angles, 
> perspective etc unique enough, you can claim copyright? I'm not so 
> great with derivative works, perhaps someone could clarify that. I 
> wonder if we'll have a lot of photos looking up the Sphinx's nose at 
> twilight, now :-s

If they make explicit reference to drawings as an exception to this law 
it's well because they are targeting pictures. Imho, this law can be 
compare with new picture prohibition rule at Louvre Museum while they 
will not applied it strictly (Egyptian government or Louvre have no 
benefit to prohibit all pictures), but they will use this law at handle 
some particular situations.
Any way, it's really a scandal to try to steal a world heritage! I can 
understand they increase the fees for visiting monument, but try to get 
copyright on 5000 yo monuments it's really unacceptable.
 
Aoineko
 
PS: Sorry for my poor English.



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