>
>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.
>
The logo is NOT the tree. The logo is trademarked and copyrighted, not
the tree!
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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