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| I remember rnieadg that the same issue came up at the time of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Amateur photography was a new phenomenon then and the Fair allowed amateurs but not pros to take photos. The reason was that the Fair made quite a lot of money selling its own photographs. I imagine the issue remains the same--the museum wants to be able to control (and profit from) professionally-taken fine art interior photographs and also photographs of the art work, and that's especially true if the artwork work is NOT copyrighted. That is, if I own art that is long out of copyright, I can have the effective equivalent of copyright protection if I don't allow anybody else to produce images of it. And any new photographs of the public-domain work that I produce are protected by copyright.BTW, what are the laws with respect to photographs of copyrighted works? Fallingwater, for example, is still under copyright--it would be a violation to hire a builder to produce a copy. But is it a copyright violation to photograph Fallingwater and sell those images? | By Amine on 15 Jul 00:14
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