Your comments seems a bit tongue in cheek, but the answer is probably not. This law doesn't protect works made for hire--and presumably the monuments would hav

Your comments seems a bit tongue in cheek, but the answer is probably not. This law doesn't protect works made for hire--and presumably the monuments would have been. It also only gives standing to sue to the author of a work, so the general public couldn't rely on it and if the author is dead the right to sue likely died with him/her. Finally, it doesn't prevent taking something down--only mutilation or destruction, etc. of an artist's work.