[Leica] louvre bans photography

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

I was looking for an academic paper I seem to have read before about the 
Louvre, copyright, their reproductions, and the original Mona Lisa, and came 
across this interesting article about the banning of photography:

http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/news/davincicode_pictures_monalisa.html

seems photographing the mona lisa has been verbotten since 1996 but 
according to the article, the ban only reduced the number of photos taken of 
the iconic painting by 80%. Security staff are so overwhelmed by the number 
of people violating the ban they can only stop a handful. 

The average time spent viewing DiVinci's masterpiece? fifteen seconds.

kc