Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All the more humorous because you can have a 3.3 meg jpg of Mona Lisa at wikipedia <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Mona_Lisa.jpg> Probably with better lighting and color ;~) drop the file in your camera and tell your friends you were there ;~) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > On Mon 4, Jan'10 at 9:06 AM -0500, Kyle Cassidy wrote: >> This is indeed because of copyright. The Louvre, for example, >> cannot copyright the Mona Lisa, it's in the public domain, but >> they CAN copyright their reproductions of it and control access to >> the original making sure that nobody else can make reproductions >> of it. > > Funny example. The last time I was there, there were more people > taking pictures of the Mona Lisa than actually looking at it. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgray1/3018923813/in/ > set-72157607905705648/> > > I did take quite a number of pictures there and was not hassled at > all. I have been asked to stop taking photos in the Philadelphia > Museum of Art though. Museums can be an interesting place to take > photos of people. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information