Copyright to be claimed on the Pyramids and Sphynx

[streaky]

Yes, that's right ... and it's not April the First.

The Egyptians are working on legislation to extend Copyright above 3,000 years and to make it retrospective. Their aim might well be to claim royaltiest for reproductions (including photographs) of the Pyramids and the Great Sphynx of Giza. The legisation will be extra-territorial.

This last point is the concern here. Nu Labia's record suggests that Brown will set up a special force to investigate past tourists to Egypt, with powers to enter your property and demand payment of the royalties (plus tax) or the return of all souvenirs.

The Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas may have to be demolished.

Streaky

The last part isn't true, despite its pyramidical shape, the Egyptians have said it's not a true likeness. However, the Al-Wafd newspaper lamented that 35m tourists visit LV each year to see the hotel, whereas only six million visit the city of Luxor, and called on the hotel to pay a slice of its earning to the city.

[paranha]

Much easier is Browns plan to copywrite the English language(scotish exempted)so extra tax similar to paye.All printed English wordwide to pay tax ,monitored by scams and paid for on line.

[Parrot of Doom]

Good. Perhaps they'll also be compelled to restore the polished limestone missing from the surface of Khufu's pyramid, limestone they sat back and allowed to be robbed.

[bleesh]

My name is gfArrwen from the planet Geertal which orbits the star you know as Proxima Centauri.

My family already holds the copyright in the design of the Mark 24 Planetary Navigation Beacons, of which this Egyptian speaks.

Please forward his address so that I may send him our copyright infringement invoice.

Thank you.

gfArrwen

[Hooli]

bleesh said:

My name is gfArrwen from the planet Geertal which orbits the star you know as Proxima Centauri.

My family already holds the copyright in the design of the Mark 24 Planetary Navigation Beacons, of which this Egyptian speaks.

Please forward his address so that I may send him our copyright infringement invoice.

Thank you.

gfArrwen

mind the Mangalores then

[streaky]

Hooli said:

bleesh said:

My name is gfArrwen from the planet Geertal which orbits the star you know as Proxima Centauri.

My family already holds the copyright in the design of the Mark 24 Planetary Navigation Beacons, of which this Egyptian speaks.

Please forward his address so that I may send him our copyright infringement invoice.

Thank you.

gfArrwen

mind the Mangalores then

And remember to ask the Martians for back royalties due on the anomalies in the Cydonia Mensae - Streaky

[davidra]

If Vegas is a problem, are the pyramids in asia and central america infringing or derivative works? Did they all have the same author/owner? Do the vendors of lego bricks violate DMCA???

[bimsb6]

no more toblerone

[streaky]

paranha said:

Much easier is Browns plan to copywrite the English language(scotish exempted)so extra tax similar to paye.All printed English wordwide to pay tax ,monitored by scams and paid for on line.

Well, text messages will be exempt by default, and a lot of what's written by our wonderfully educated (not!) youth ... because it's not English (well, not as I was learned it ) - Streaky

[davidra]

Roman/Greek alphabet and Arabic numerals? And ASCII is an american invention (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

[streaky]

davidra said:

Roman/Greek alphabet and Arabic numerals? And ASCII is an american invention (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

The "Roman/Greek alphabet" was derived from the Phoenician alphabet. The glyphs commonly referred to as 'Arabic numerals' came from India originally, and are more fully called Hindu-Arabic numerals. But, what's ASCII got to do with the price of fish? You might as well bring in EBCDIC (or UTF-EBCDIC for true multi-language support) - Streaky

[davidra]

streaky said:

But, what's ASCII got to do with the price of fish? You might as well bring in EBCDIC - Streaky

Sorry copyright law is upsetting me atm. ASCII - well if we copyright English why can't we copyright the symbols its made from and how we display them? Lego bricks - because you can use them to make copies of pyramidal structures

Edited by davidra on Friday 28th December 20:41