Showing posts with label copyleft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copyleft. Show all posts

Monday, February 07, 2005

Example of the changes needed in Copyright laws

Let me get this straight...Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with public money. Heaven forbid any member of the public who tries to photograph this sculpture, though: it's a copyrighted sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their tax-dollars bought. New (sub)Urbanism: The Copyrighting of Public Space