JesusH! What a crock! Maybe this is why Flickr bumped my account into purgatory? Kidding, sorta.
Is copyright law going crazy? Can we agree that copyright law is sucking the lifeblood of American free speech and art?
Boing Boing: Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public:
Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public
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. Woe betide 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.
Read much more here, including a scan of the reader article.
So in other words, this picture I took, before the park officially opened, is probably contraband. Yikes.
Update: Theoretically, the restrictions only apply if one is a 'commercial' photographer. I'm not sure exactly how this is defined or enforced, but something to bear in mind.
{Photos, Arts, Chicago, Current Affairs}
