[Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama case law - which law applies?

Tue Feb 3 14:29:55 UTC 2015

you could call it "earch-bound panorama rule" (avoiding the word
"freedom" here on purpose), sounds wonderfully heavy ...

Am 02.02.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov:
> Hi all,
> 
> I came across n interesting piece of text in a German mainstream
> newspaper that ran an article on Freedom of Panorama. [1] or [2]
> 
> According to the text, there has been court action against pictures of
> the Hunderwasserhaus located in Vienna. [3]
> 
> Theoretically, both countries enjoy full FoP. [4] The German law,
> however, has one restriction: pictures need to be taken from a public
> ground. With other words, not only the building must be located on a
> public street or square, but also the photographer (effectively making
> pictures made with a drone in Germany a noFOP). According to the
> Austrian law, there is no such restriction.
> 
> What happened is, that somebody took a picture from the building across
> the street. The image is perfectly legal in Ausstria, but the
> rightsholders of the Hunderwasserhaus in Vienna managed to get German
> courts to order a stop of distribution in Germanny.
> 
> Questions arising are:
> 
>   * Are there other countries where a "on the ground" specification exists?
>   * Can I request the take down of a picture of the Millenium Bridge in
>     London in France?
>   * How can we best coin this knew piece of information to best suit our
>     advocacy efforts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dimi
> 
> [1]http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21116446,29726088,item,1.html
> [2]http://www.rundschau-online.de/recht/urheberrecht-warum-fotos-vom-eiffelturm-teuer-werden-koennen,21117814,29726088.html
> [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasserhaus
> [4]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Malta

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