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Re:Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man? by LanceH on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:56AM (#24504648)
We need to get away from the idea that taking a picture of something is reproducing it.

Or that having a trademark in the background of something is implying an endorsement and necessitates payment.

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Re:Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man? by asalahli on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:17AM (#24504895)
> We need to get away from the idea that taking a picture of something is reproducing it.

What about taking a picture of a copyrighted text?

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Re:Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man? by LanceH on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:25AM (#24505787)
If you take a picture of enough of the text, you've actually reproduced the work under copyright.

No amount of pictures of a building will reproduce it.

Also, if they want to claim ownership of the recording of something clearly visible in public, they should take responsibility and make payment for everyone that views it against their will. Yea, that latter half of that sounds ridiculous. The first half should as well.

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Re:Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man? by mantap on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:32AM (#24505090)
The photo contains everything needed to reproduce the text. Whereas for a building a photo just captures one tiny perspective of it.
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