Please unsubscribe me from list . Thank you Ameya Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Adam Bolte <abolte@systemsaviour.com> wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:17:44PM +1000, Adrian Colomitchi wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Adam Bolte <abolte@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?privc... . 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. ;)
:) 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. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-m... Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/