> There was a movement where art > galleries in NYC displayed actual tomb stones that had been taken from different > grave yards in the US and Canada but then some law enforcement person went on > a vendetta and stopped the practice Heck, photographers shouldn't become grave-robbers. Presumably someone holds copyright to the words written on gravestones? Either the stonemason or the family member who commissioned it I guess. Presumably, apart from very old generic messages (such as "Rest In Peace") someone should be earning royalties. Is it any defence to claim that a photograph of a copyrighted piece of text is any different from a textual copy of it? Is it? That is, if I use someone's poem on my home page without permission I'm surely breaching their copyright but am I still if I portray a photography of an object in a public place bearing a transcript of the same. The world can become a very silly place if you look at it in a silly way ;o)
