Another example is champagne. Sparkling wine from other regions is not technically champagne.
However, limiting the ability of the public to photograph things outdoors doesn't seem quite comparable. If a real estate company owned a significant number of buildings in a downtown area, could they then copyright the skyline of a city as the creative work of their collective architectural firms?
If you made a large installation visible from space (say, the Palm Islands in Dubai), could you claim copyright on images of Earth with high enough detail to make out your work?
Basically, what's the limit on this, because it seems like it has a pretty high ceiling for ridiculousness.
> If a real estate company owned a significant number of buildings in a downtown area, could they then copyright the skyline of a city as the creative work of their collective architectural firms?
Usually copyright belongs to the architect and can't be transferred to anyone in Europe.
> If you made a large installation visible from space (say, the Palm Islands in Dubai), could you claim copyright on images of Earth with high enough detail to make out your work?
I'm pretty sure that's already the case in many jurisdictions, including Germany where there is freedom of panorama. That only applies for images taken without technical assistance to get the view and using a satellite to take the picture is certainly technical assistance (as is a ladder btw.).
Another example is champagne. Sparkling wine from other regions is not technically champagne.
However, limiting the ability of the public to photograph things outdoors doesn't seem quite comparable. If a real estate company owned a significant number of buildings in a downtown area, could they then copyright the skyline of a city as the creative work of their collective architectural firms?
If you made a large installation visible from space (say, the Palm Islands in Dubai), could you claim copyright on images of Earth with high enough detail to make out your work?
Basically, what's the limit on this, because it seems like it has a pretty high ceiling for ridiculousness.