Permission to photograph megalithic monuments?

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Lubin L
Lubin Jul 28, 2009 14:57:33
Replying to head-first

head-first wrote:
Hope he gets permission for his holiday snaps!

:o)

That was what was going through my mind. Surely that would make taking photos of anything infringement of copyright. If you take a photo of say St Paul's do you have to get permission from the Church first. And what about landscapes. If you take a photo you would have to get permission from all the landowners whose land is in the photo. I think they may be pulling a fast one here. I have in the past come across places where you cannot take photos so the owner of the property can sell photos of his/their own.

Peace , Lubin

H head-first
head-first Jul 28, 2009 15:21:56
Replying to Lubin

Exactly! I recently took a series of photographs for an exhibition, which were of access land owned by a city council. Should I expect to pay them for permission to use the pictures? It seems an absurd idea. Almost everything is owned by someone these days, but an artist owns the copyright to their work unless they deliberately relinquish it.

Do film makers have to pay copyright on every public location they use?

Did Ansel Adams pay the U.S. National Park Service for his landscape photos? I doubt it!