Daniel Case
ABSA Tower from Thibault Square, Cape Town
In the interim I thought it also might be interesting to upload here some of the photos I took during Wikimania 2018 that I cannot upload to Commons, i.e. photos of single works of architecture.
Like Italy, South Africa does not recognize freedom of panorama. However, whereas in Italy this was deliberate, it seems to have resulted from an oversight in South Africa. Copyright law there allows for *moving* images of architectural works to be considered original, perhaps to protect the producers of TV shows and movies from suit, but when that law was passed someone forgot to include still images as well. Hopefully that oversight will be corrected someday soon.
Anyway, during lunch break (actually midday break, as the organizers of this year's Wikimania had the great idea to allow lunch to be served for several hours, allowing us to space it out rather than cramming into several dining rooms at once as we have been doing at the last several Wikimanias (like this one held in the sort of ritzy hotels that can accommodate large international conferences with a thousand or more attendees on a given day) I, along with others, went out to check out the neighborhood of Cape Town's CBD.
It sort of reminded me of some Canadian city, with the brutalist and 1970s modernist architecture, this plaza here a few blocks away in the pedestrian mall, and most of all the bare trees since, after all, we are in the Southern Hemisphere here and it *is* wintertime (It was actually in the 70s Fahrenheit when I took this picture, so I was in short sleeves, but the many Capetonians around and about took no chances (we were fortunate to be in the middle of a warm spell) and were often wearing sweat shirts and sometimes jackets over them (I'm not going to smile; when we have warm spells in our winters I and others often do the same thing).
After I took these pictures a security guard shooed me away. Was he enforcing the copyright law?
ABSA Tower from Thibault Square, Cape Town
In the interim I thought it also might be interesting to upload here some of the photos I took during Wikimania 2018 that I cannot upload to Commons, i.e. photos of single works of architecture.
Like Italy, South Africa does not recognize freedom of panorama. However, whereas in Italy this was deliberate, it seems to have resulted from an oversight in South Africa. Copyright law there allows for *moving* images of architectural works to be considered original, perhaps to protect the producers of TV shows and movies from suit, but when that law was passed someone forgot to include still images as well. Hopefully that oversight will be corrected someday soon.
Anyway, during lunch break (actually midday break, as the organizers of this year's Wikimania had the great idea to allow lunch to be served for several hours, allowing us to space it out rather than cramming into several dining rooms at once as we have been doing at the last several Wikimanias (like this one held in the sort of ritzy hotels that can accommodate large international conferences with a thousand or more attendees on a given day) I, along with others, went out to check out the neighborhood of Cape Town's CBD.
It sort of reminded me of some Canadian city, with the brutalist and 1970s modernist architecture, this plaza here a few blocks away in the pedestrian mall, and most of all the bare trees since, after all, we are in the Southern Hemisphere here and it *is* wintertime (It was actually in the 70s Fahrenheit when I took this picture, so I was in short sleeves, but the many Capetonians around and about took no chances (we were fortunate to be in the middle of a warm spell) and were often wearing sweat shirts and sometimes jackets over them (I'm not going to smile; when we have warm spells in our winters I and others often do the same thing).
After I took these pictures a security guard shooed me away. Was he enforcing the copyright law?