2011/9/29 Russ Nelson <[email protected]>: > That's the Berne Convention at work. Not every country has signed > it. And at least in the U.S., you cannot copyright a fact of the > world. The shape of a building and the walls inside it are not > copyrightable. An image which depicts them might be, if it contains > creative elements, but if you use the facts that it depicts, and do > not redistribute the image itself, you are not infringing the work.
The building itself is the creative work. There is an exception for buildings when photographed from the outside, but the inside is not covered by this exception AFAIK. The situation might depend on the country. See here for instance: http://asmp.org/tutorials/photos-public-buildings.html An “architectural work” is defined as the design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings. The work includes the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design, but does not include the standard individual features See The Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
