France - Paris - Eiffel view from Montmartre - Blue watercolour_flipped
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Another reworking of an old shot of Paris...... it's a further 'twist' on my previous upload and another attempt to produce a 'different' shot of the cities most famous landmark.
I liked the way the Eiffel Tower is so small in the frame but due to it's form and placement within the frame it dominates the shot. I also liked the way the silhouettes of the trees echo the famous Paris landmark.
Click here to see more of my 'flipped' shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157627889661743
From Wikipedia, "The tower and its image have been in the public domain since 1993, 70 years after Eiffel's death. In June 1990 a French court ruled that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989 to mark the tower's 100th anniversary was an "original visual creation" protected by copyright. The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992. The Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) now considers any illumination of the tower to be a separate work of art that falls under copyright. As a result, the SNTE alleges that it is illegal to publish contemporary photographs of the lit tower at night without permission in France and some other countries for commercial use. For this reason, it is often rare to find images or videos of the lit tower at night on stock image sites, and media outlets rarely broadcast images or videos of it.
The imposition of copyright has been controversial. The Director of Documentation for what was then called the Société Nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SNTE), Stéphane Dieu, commented in 2005: "It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways [of which] we don't approve". SNTE made over €1 million from copyright fees in 2002. However, it could also be used to restrict the publication of tourist photographs of the tower at night, as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the illuminated tower."
© D.Godliman
France - Paris - Eiffel view from Montmartre - Blue watercolour_flipped
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
Another reworking of an old shot of Paris...... it's a further 'twist' on my previous upload and another attempt to produce a 'different' shot of the cities most famous landmark.
I liked the way the Eiffel Tower is so small in the frame but due to it's form and placement within the frame it dominates the shot. I also liked the way the silhouettes of the trees echo the famous Paris landmark.
Click here to see more of my 'flipped' shots : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157627889661743
From Wikipedia, "The tower and its image have been in the public domain since 1993, 70 years after Eiffel's death. In June 1990 a French court ruled that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989 to mark the tower's 100th anniversary was an "original visual creation" protected by copyright. The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992. The Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) now considers any illumination of the tower to be a separate work of art that falls under copyright. As a result, the SNTE alleges that it is illegal to publish contemporary photographs of the lit tower at night without permission in France and some other countries for commercial use. For this reason, it is often rare to find images or videos of the lit tower at night on stock image sites, and media outlets rarely broadcast images or videos of it.
The imposition of copyright has been controversial. The Director of Documentation for what was then called the Société Nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SNTE), Stéphane Dieu, commented in 2005: "It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways [of which] we don't approve". SNTE made over €1 million from copyright fees in 2002. However, it could also be used to restrict the publication of tourist photographs of the tower at night, as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the illuminated tower."
© D.Godliman