>Does the word "photocopy" give you any ideas. Lots of legal issues
there.
>In many cases it is the intellectual rights that are being protected
from
>copying, not just the original object. So the Opera House in Sydney,
being
>quite unique, is an intellectual property.
>
Only if they got the drawings and other renderings copyrighted. The
copyright to the building itself only covers duplication of the
building.
>It still seems some are in it just to make a few more bucks ($) and
are
>hurting themselves more in bad publicity than they are gaining for the
sake
>of a postcard, IMO
>
If you are on public property and have the appropriate film permit, you
can shoot anything within the reach of your lens and sell it for
whatever the market will bear. They can only control you if you are on
their property. No one owns an artistic rendering of anything except
for the creator of that rendering. If you shoot the opera house in
infrared, they cannot claim copyright infringement, at least not under
US law.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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