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handpicked selection of notables:

- Frida Kahlo

- Henri Matisse

- Alan Turing

i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you do with a buidling?



Kind of a niche, but the open world Spiderman video games stopped including the Chrysler Building due to licensing issues after it was bought by new owners in ~2019


The building going into public domain is actually pretty sweet. Here in Portland we have this really cool looking statue in front of our city hall called the Portlandia statue (way before the show). You'd think it would be shown all over in pictures of our city, but the guy that made it owns the copyright and enforces the shit out of it. Because of that it's entirely unknown. No one wants to publish a picture and pay him. When that enters public down in a SUPER long time it will be easily published and folks might actually know it exists.

https://www.wweek.com/archive/2024/03/24/why-the-portlandia-...


The city should take it down, fuck that guy.


isn't the new pedestrian from a few years ago the same way? (the one with lights)


> i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you do with a buidling?

I guess maybe the design of the building, if anything? If that will become public domain, expect it to appear in Macau in a year or less, and probably other places :)


There was some crank that once C&D'd a minecraft server for reproducing copyrighted buildings. I dont think he had the guts to take it to court though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2IiZvg1xQ


You wouldn't download a building.


I would if I could ! but my 3D printer is a bit to small


The Eiffel Tower isnt copyrighted, obviously, but the 1985 light design at night is, so you may need permission to use photos of it commercially


Also the writer Pär Lagerkvist, nobel award winner




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