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FYI. first two shots are copyright protected by city of Paris. no joke. you can take this shots but they still have copyright.
all five are nice.I like #3 if you could get rid of the light on the right. It detracts slightly from the rest of the image.
Hi, thanks for that i just looked up Wikipedia and found the following;
The tower and its representations have long been in the public domain; however, a French court ruled, in March 1992, that the night-time light display is protected under copyright, except in a panoramic view. SNTE (Société nouvelle d’exploitation de la tour Eiffel) installed a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower’s 100th anniversary. The Court of Cassation, France’s judicial court of last resort, decided that the display was an “original visual creation” protected by copyright. Since then, the SNTE considers any night-time image of the lighting display under copyright. As a result, it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries.
The Eiffel Tower and the Seine at night
The imposition of copyright has been controversial. The Director of Documentation for SNTE, Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, “It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn’t used in ways we don’t approve.” However, it also potentially has the effect of prohibiting tourist photographs of the tower at night from being published, as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the tower. Besides, French doctrine and jurisprudence traditionally allow pictures incorporating a copyrighted work as long as their presence is incidental or accessory to the main represented subject, a reasoning akin to the De minimis rule. Thus, SNTE could not claim copyright on photographs of panoramas of Paris incorporating the lit towerFantastic work and quite an interesting story to emerge regarding copyright… I never knew this lol it’s crazy I think ;)
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