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All copyright owners are greedy penny pinches. There's no special law for the Eiffel Tower, this is how copyright works by default. Last week The Vessel opened
by hannasanarion 8y ago
All copyright owners are greedy penny pinches. There's no special law for the Eiffel Tower, this is how copyright works by default.
Last week The Vessel opened in New York City. It's an enormous sculpture you can climb, six stories tall, takes up half a block and it's clearly visible from Jersey. It's illegal to take pictures of it without paying royalties for the next 109 years and 51 weeks, because that's what US copyright law says.
- coldtea 8y agoThe copyright law is a red herring. There shouldn't be any copyright requested or registered, and if one was awarded automatically, the state could have re-released it into the public domain. The "copyright law" merely helps enforce this -- it doesn't dictate a monument should have a copyright, nor that the owner of the copyright should ask for money for taking pictures of it.
- hannasanarion 8y agoThe state can't release it into the public domain, because the state doesn't hold the copyright. The artist, Pierre Bideau does.