Iconic art
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 15:28
Just a quick question on something I'm not sure the answer to. Maybe you guys and gals can help me.
i was thinking of doing some art of some iconic buildings, such as Westminster abbey, Buckingham palace, but how does a license hold on something like that? Obviously I could call them something else I just wondered thou, is it something that can be done or are there rules that don't permit certain named buildings?, I can't find a definitive answer really,.
If I find out anything il post about it, if anyone can point point me in the right though, that would be great.
thanks, :)
Any really old building is going to be so old it's public domain by now. The only thing you might run into is there are some buildings that are new enough to still be under copyright. I know photos of the Louvre with that (relatively anyway) new glass pyramind with it ran into some problems, for instance. The Eiffel Tower also tries to get away with protecting its image by copyright its lighting, so that if you take a ohoto you may not infringe upon the building but would, theoretically, on the way it's lit. Stupid, I know, but France is known for bizarre law cases.
A good roundup can be found on a photography site: http://www.thephotoforum.com/threads/building-architecture-copyright.145723/ As often is the case, the Wikipedia article on the topic seems to be written in such a way as to be useless for most readers. Writing by random collaborations of anyone who feels like writing something can do that.