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Re: Asimov Site



On 12 Sep 2000 15:16:53 GMT, apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu
(ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>Poor example.  The Mona Lisa is displayed in a museum with a 'no photo'
>policy.  It is against the law to even take the photo without permission.

I'm not sure if things changed since I visited the Louvre in Paris,
France, but when I was there, you were allowed to take photographs of
the Mona Lisa.  However, you weren't allowed to take FLASH photographs
of it.  This was about 15 years ago, though.

>Your copyright claim would be dismissed as bogus in court.  To get
>permission to take the photo, you need to sign over your potential
>copyright to the museum.  It retains the copyright, not you.  An attempt
>to display the photo in a published form is a copyright violation.

My father took a picture of the Mona Lisa while we were there and I
don't remember him having to get any permission or sign any papers.
He just walked in front of the painting and its guards, took the flash
off his Canon AE-1 camera and took a picture.  :-)

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