H5N1 Swedish map which does nil but encourage together with assist people to notice together with persuasion populace plant of fine art has been sued for violating copyright laws. Offentlig Konst is a Swedish interactive map of populace art. It has only lost a illustration inwards Sweden's Supreme Court for copyright infringement.
Offentlig is a handy niggling map which tin assist y'all notice nearby populace statues together with other populace plant of art. The map includes the advert of each live of art, the advert of the creative someone together with a link to the artwork's Wikipedia entry.
It every bit good used to include useful photos of each statue. Not whatsoever more. The Supreme Court of Sweden has ruled that it is illegal to provide gratis access to a database of fine art photographs without the artists' consent. Therefore Offentlig Konst tin no longer exhibit y'all a pic of a live of art, fifty-fifty when the artwork is inwards populace ownership, on populace display together with sited inwards a populace area,
Who said copyright laws were crazy?
Offtenling Konst is a projection of Wikimedia Sweden. Wikimedia Sweden were sued past times the Visual Copyright Society inwards Sweden. Apparently it is the task of the Visual Copyright Society inwards Sweden to become inwards to a greater extent than hard to notice plant of fine art past times Swedish artists.
The Wikimedia Blog has published an article looking at the Swedish court's sentence inwards to a greater extent than exceptional together with Wikimedia's disagreement amongst the ruling.
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