Starting a list of weird rules that seem counterintuitive because after I learned that there's places in which it's illegal to record a conversation you are having without informing the other parties, now I'm learning that there's places where it's illegal to photograph public art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama
@levisan apparently the hollywood sign is such an object. To me, this is absolutely ridiculous, and so laws be damned. If you or I are in public, we're subject to photography without our consent. Seems the same thing should be the case for the crap called public art inflicted on us in a public space without our consent (and usually with our tax money.)
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@levisan there's an "intangible culture heritage" argument, which is as legitimate as your belief in such, like the protections extended to cheese from some particular part of Europe.
To me it seems like part of the larger scheme to own and manage culture.
It's sort of like how fanfic is a response to the reality that modern mythologies are copyrighted intellectual property.
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@jezza Bringing the idea of fanfic in is perfect. We need to copy and make derivative artwork to some extent to be creative!
@jezza Aha, my comic-reading system brought me this just now. Very perfect.
@levisan i think we need more than that... first, "open mythologies" which other people are free to make work from without complications, including being able to sell it (as media, not as IP.)
The second is that we need people to focus on creating new things. It's hard for me to believe that Marvel's spandex or Star Wars Trek is a monopoly on the possibilities of storytelling and universe building.
@jezza I like that logic!
The funniest thing for me reading about this is that public art is un-photographable assuming the copyright hasn't expired in Greece (where no one takes pictures of anything less than 2000 years old) and also in lots of African and impoverished nations, where there's maybe one statue in the whole country.