Read my later post agreeing with you.
Regards,
Bob...
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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose
as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers
with the smallest possible amount of hissing."
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert,
minister of finance to French King Louis XIV
From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Monday, August 15, 2005, at 05:25 PM, Bob Blakely wrote:
Very, very few buildings are under copyright here in the US. Only a
few and they use their edifice as their LOGO. If you use a photo of
their edifice for commercial use, it implies their endorsement. If you
just sell a photo of their edifice for the photo's artistic value,
they are probably without complaint.
You can't copyright a building. You can copyright the architectural
drawings for the building, and you might even be able to patent some
design elements if they are functional. What has been done to a few
buildings in the USA is that they have been registered as trademarks.
You can not copy a trademark for commercial use without the permission
of the trademark owner (unless you're Andy Warhol and it becomes fine
art).
