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I don't know how it is in other countries but in general in France you cannot just take a picture of a building and put it on Instagram without asking the archi
by jcelerier 4y ago
I don't know how it is in other countries but in general in France you cannot just take a picture of a building and put it on Instagram without asking the architect for rights :
> the image of a building cannot be reproduced without the authorization of the architect who holds the copyright or of his successors in title. Otherwise, the reproduction of a protected work without the authorization of its author constitutes, according to the provisions of the article L122-4 of the Code of the intellectual property an act of counterfeit.
- jodrellblank 4y agoFrance must get a lot of money from all the photos of the Eiffel Tower on the internet. Has anyone been sued/convicted of breaking that and paid reparations?
- luxcem 4y agoFun fact, the Eiffel Tower architecture is not protected since 1990, but the lighting is. So it's illegal to use commercialy a night time photo of the tower[1][2]. I don't think anybody has ever been sued but the SETE (Société d'exploitation de la tour Eiffel) do make money with the image. [1] https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel-tower https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Illumination_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Illumination_copy...
- Dwolb 4y agoInteresting I hadn’t heard of that! Is this law often enforced?
- true_religion 4y agoI wonder how they deal with real estate pictures. Do most people get a license to reproduce the images of their house when they buy it?
- Jiocus 4y agoI read some year ago that this kind of thing applies to New York as well, that was in the context of an open-world Spider-Man game featuring NY skylines.