2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
Not a good example. The building owner is not working your camera, you are. You own the photographs you take, not the person who owns the object being photographed.
Your US bias is showing. Consider French law.
Still if you want a US law based case. Substitute 3D artworks in a public place in the UK for building.
But what you are advocating, is that if you take lots of photos, and post them to your own web site, that any person wandering by who says "Oh that's an image of a piece of art in the public domain" can just lift it off your site, and plop it on theirs.
Without any credit to you, without any consideration.
Again depends where they are. But yes any American can do that with this stuff most of which I scanned:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_Ordnance_Survey_map_images