Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] photography in art museums
From: tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:58:49 -0500
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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.
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