2009/1/16  <wjhon...@aol.com>:
> Not a good example.
> The building owner is not working your camera, you are.
> You own the photographs you take, not the person who owns the object being
> photographed.

Your US bias is showing. Consider French law.

Still if you want a US law based case. Substitute 3D artworks in a
public place in the UK for building.

>
> But what you are advocating, is that if you take lots of photos, and post
> them to your own web site, that any person wandering by who says "Oh that's an
> image of a piece of art in the public domain" can just lift it off your site,
> and plop it on theirs.
>
> Without any credit to you, without any consideration.

Again depends where they are. But yes any American can do that with
this stuff most of which I scanned:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_Ordnance_Survey_map_images


-- 
geni

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