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Re: [OM] Photoserfs

Subject: Re: [OM] Photoserfs
From: "Gregg" <giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:22:07 -0400
Dirk Wright replied:

> >>I also find it hard to believe that
> >>taking a picture of a building and selling it violates their 
> copyright.
> >
> >Head over to Pebble Beach golf course and try taking a picture of the 
> >famous tree...you'll get a lesson in copyright law.
> 
> This has absolutely *nothing* to do with copyright law. Pebble Beach is 
> a PRIVATE golf course. They can make up whatever rules they want to 
> about photography. Not only that, no one can get a copyright on a tree!

But they can on a logo and the tree has become the logo for Pebble Beach.

Gregg


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