> Hi all,
>
> some weeks ago I learned that depicting certain public buildings is
> not allowed due to copyright issues. One cannot depict the
> Eiffel-tower with his laserlights since they are copyrighted to the
> artist who created the lights. Even the depicting of the Sidney
> opera, or of the Statue of Liberty, New York, should be forbidden. I
> can not really believe this, since we have the "Freedom of panorama".
> But I'm no lawyer. What do you know or think of this?
>

   IANAL too, but my first guess is that these issues refer only to
photographs, and only if you tried to use them commercially. A little
research seems to confirm that:

http://asmp.org/tutorials/photos-public-buildings.html#.UNTYYPl385Y
http://thecopyrightzone.com/?p=458

   But as usual with IP, you never can be sure until someone sues you...
and perhaps not even so.

--
Jaime

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