On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:46, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi! > > LeeE wrote: > > [...], there should be nothing to prevent a photographer from > > taking a photograph of the Eiffel Tower lights and exhibiting > > it to others, as long as they don't do so for profit, because > > it's their personal view and artistic expression of something > > they've seen in the public domain. > > Typically copyright does not distinguish between "for profit" and > "not for profit". The main distinction is what in Germany is > called "geschäftsmäßig", which is something like "in a regular > manner". Distributing the models in a package for general > availability probably falls in this category, whether for profit > or not. > > IANAL. > > Cheers, > Ralf
I was thinking more along the lines of publicly displaying the photo in an exhibition, which I don't think could be regarded as distribution, as opposed to selling copies of it, which would be classed as distribution. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
