On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:17:44PM +1000, Adrian Colomitchi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Adam Bolte <abo...@systemsaviour.com>wrote: > > > > > > 2. there exists things stranger than you think is this words. E.g. the > > > Millau Viaduct was copyrighed *as design* by the architect (Lord Norman > > > Foster) and still is. His lordship chose to grant *the management* of the > > > intellectual property rights to the company that operates/maintains > > > it< > > http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=26524091 > > >. > > > Now, you either use a browser with the Flash Payer installed, navigate to > > > http://www.leviaducdemillau.com/en_index.php and, bottom of the page > > pick > > > "Legale notice" to read it yourself, or you believe me when I'm saying > > that > > > *this company is the sole legal entity that can grant the right for the > > use > > > of the pictures of that bridge*. > > > > Different jurisdictions surely have different copyright laws and > > interpretations too, so I'm not entirely surprised. Oh look - it's on > > Wikipedia under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. ;) > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct > > > :) Think you caught me pants down, are you ? :)
Haha. :) > No, you are not looking to the picture of Millau Viaduct, but at photo of > Creiselles!. Doh!!!! >< Oh well. I tried. ;) I'm really surprised that it is legal to ban photographs of something that takes up such a considerable size of land that is open to the public. Would be especially surprised if such laws were respected outside of France, but I guess secret international trade agreements could make it happen at any time. > If you read the "Description" of the image > file<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Creissels_et_Viaduct_de_Millau.jpg>, > you'll find that the picture actually depicts: "*Blick auf Creissels* *mit > der Autobahnbrücke im Hintergrund*" (translation: "*the **view of Creissels* > *with the highway bridge in the background*"). > If it would be a picture of the Millau Viaduct itself, you wouldn't be > looking to it on Wikipedia, as Wikipedia is very serious about copyright > (greed motivated or not). Hmm. Well... Google Images to the rescue!! http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=843&q=Millau+Viaduct&oq=Millau+Viaduct&gs_l=img.12..0l10.57021.57021.0.57346.1.1.0.0.0.0.214.214.2-1.1.0.cqrwrth...0...1.1.22.img..0.1.214.g7y5foz7NxY Although I'd probably not want to be sued for hosting them myself. > The explanation: if you go the http://www.leviaducdemillau.com/en_index.php > and > navigate/read the legal notice, you discover that: > "no image exists ... of the Millau Viaduct that is "copyright free" (except > images of landscapes in which the Viaduct, *shown into background*, *is not > the main subject of the image*)" No matter what I do, I always end up being redirected to a page that's not in English. :/ Oh well - I believe you.
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