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RE: [OM] copyright issues

Subject: RE: [OM] copyright issues
From: "Riek, Christopher" <christopher.riek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:59:34 -0400
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how the hell can you
copyright a building? Think about it, it just doesn't make sense. 
Besides, any picture you take and develop is automatically
copyrighted to yourself. So just thumb your nose at them and
take their picture.
-Chris Riek
> ----------
> > I took a brief look at US copyright law and I'm not convinced that
> > taking a picture of an object that is copyrighted is a violation of
> > that right. Copyright means that you can't copy the object. A
> > photograph is not a copy of any three dimensional object. I don't see
> > the basis for any of this. I will continue to investigate however......
> 

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