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Before I go to bed …

May 15, 2006 on 4:09 pm | In blog |

here’s a little photo I got a few days ago, on the European Union’s birthday (or at least that’s what I think it was).

PS - I didn’t change the colors in Photoshop - it really was blue !

Blue tour

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Oooops! Taking pictures at night of the eiffel tower is copyrighted business. See: http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/pratique/faq/index.html

more precisely:

Q: Is the publishing of a photo of the Eiffel Tower permitted?
A : There are no restrictions on publishing a picture of the Tower by day. Photos taken at night when the lights are aglow are subjected to copyright laws, and fees for the right to publish must be paid to the SNTE.

So, show me the money :)))

Comment by Vasile — 25 June 2006 #
Well, generally you would be right. However, by publishing they mean selling the picture - they just want a cut (sounds like an old ganster flick). Here’s a quote from photo.net :

As a result, it’s no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs. When I spoke to the Director of Documentation for SNTE, Stéphane Dieu, via phone last week, he assured me that SNTE wasn’t interested in prohibiting the publication of amateur photography on personal Web sites. ‘It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn’t used in ways we don’t approve,’ said Mr. Dieu.”

I still think it stink’s - you can buy an a little patch of land near a monument, put a funny sculpture or something then claim copyright and anybody that want’s to photograph the monument (and you sculpture) has to pay you. But hey, after all, they’re nice : “come see it, it’s fun - but pay us so you can take a photo …”

Comment by sbaltoiu — 27 June 2006 #