[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[Caroline Ford]

Buildings are copyrighted too.

In some countries you cannot make a free photograph of a building as
it is a derivative work of the building. We have freedom of panorama
here.

Caroline

On 26/10/2007, Panos Savvas <pasavvas.accounts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This is interesting, can any one clear this up for me?
> What constitutes copyrighted material and who decides?
> For instance I am legally allowed to build a house that exactly replicates
> one i have seen
> But I cannot even re-record a song I like.
> Pressumably the architect of a house feels he/she has input as much
> intellectual investment in the building's design as a pop musician might in
> to a song.
> Where is the distinction?
>
>
>
> On 10/26/07, John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:22:22 +0100 Bernard Peek
> > <bernard.peek at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > > Yet another questionable simile is squatting. If I move into your
> > > house and lock you out I'm not stealing anything. Neither am I
> > > stealing anything. What's the crime?
> >
> > This is a very questionable simile, since, in this case, you'd be
> > depriving me of my home. This discussion is about making copies.
> >
> > Now, if you made a copy of my house, without my permission, would you
> > be depriving me of the profit I could have made selling it to you?
> >
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