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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by tomp on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:50PM (#15924464)
You mean, you're not allowed to distributed non-transformed copies of the photo?
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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by UncleEntity on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:59PM (#15924593)
Nope

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/14/photos-eiffel-tower-night-i...

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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by joosters on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:06PM (#15924713)
Nope.

The linked Snopes article that they use for this viewpoint is badly worded. Although the headline claim is 'It is illegal to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without explicit permission', nowhere in the text does it describe the act of taking a photograph as being illegal. It is all about publishing your photos and sharing them with others.

https://www.snopes.com/photographs-of-eiffel-tower-at-night/

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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by hjjiehebebe on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:56PM (#15925527)
Awesome I'm going to stick a couple of LEDs on my T-shirt and then hang out in France. It'll be illegal to stick my photo on FB
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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by talmand on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:10PM (#15924755)
In that article, and the snopes article it links to, it is implied that it is illegal to even take the picture. But then I fail to actually see where it is implicitly stated that it is illegal to take the picture. I can understand the copyright claim on publishing said photos, because that's actually the case for lots of things that can be viewed in public, but not taking the photo itself.

I really wish articles would refrain from potentially untrue clickbait headlines, but oh well.

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Re:Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet ... by jermaustin1 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:26PM (#15924994)
I'm not a lawyer, I'm just repeating what I heard on the "Today I Found Out" YouTube Channel.
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