I have found nothing on the net to substantiate this as fact or urban legend. If it was true I dont know how they could get a big enough army to enforce it..However I have no doubt that some one may try to copyright almost anything in the future Michael Snell ----- Original Message ----- From: "lmenningen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [AP] Extreme copyrights
> My first reaction is that this is total non-sense. But is it? > > Lee > > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Sounds like the EU to me.... >> >> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Road Runner wrote: >> >> > A friend of mine who has been in the videography business for > the last 17 years >> > told me that large cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, and > the such have >> > copyrighted the image of their city skyline. >> > >> > He used to live in San Diego, and he said that you cannot video > tape the skyline of >> > San Diego and put it in one of your productions unless you pay > the City of San Diego >> > a copy right fee which I think he said was about $30. >> > >> > Has anyone else ever heard of such an extreme copyright rule? > Does that mean you have to >> > pay New York City a fee to use a video clip of their skyline > which would include the >> > Statue of Liberty and the other tall buildings. If this is > true, pretty soon some one is going >> > to copyright the air we breathe and demand a "use" fee for > breathing it. >> > >> > John >> > >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
