Egypt to copyright pyramids

AFP ^ | Dec 25, 2007 | AFP

[FreedomCalls]

CAIRO (AFP) — In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.

Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP on Tuesday that the move was necessary to pay for the upkeep of the country's thousands of pharaonic sites.

"The new law will completely prohibit the duplication of historic Egyptian monuments which the Supreme Council of Antiquities considers 100-percent copies," he said.

"If the law is passed then it will be applied in all countries of the world so that we can protect our interests," Hawass said. ...

"It is Egypt's right to be the only copyright owner for these monuments in order to benefit financially so we can restore, preserve and protect Egyptian monuments." ...

Hawass's declarations came after the opposition daily Al-Wafd published an article on Sunday called for the Las Vegas hotel to pay a slice of its lodging and gambling profits to the city of Luxor.

"Thirty-five million tourists visit Las Vegas to see the reproduction of Luxor city while only six million visit the real Egyptian city of Luxor," the paper lamented.

Samir Farag, head of Luxor town council in southern Egypt, home to the legendary Valley of the Kings, said that it would be difficult to prohibit use of pyramid shapes.

"We can't forbid people from using the name of Luxor and copying monuments from (Luxor) city, which is the world's richest city for monuments," he said, adding that "tourists going to Las Vegas doesn't affect our city's business."

[FreedomCalls]

Extend copyright law to 3000 years? Retroactively? Huh?

[sinanju]

Dollar bills?

[coloradan]

Can we copyright soap, air conditioning, sunglasses? You know, stuff the Egyptians use all the time but never pay us for.

[Zhang Fei]

Good luck applying this law to anywhere outside of Egypt.

[ARE SOLE]

Muslims copywriting conquered infidel structures? Things that make you go hmmmm?

Regards

[coloradan]

(Ok, I don’t actually know about the soap part.)

[sionnsar]

the move was necessary to pay for the upkeep of the country's thousands of pharaonic sites.

Yah. Forget all the tourist bucks (okay, EGP) you're alreay collecting.

Been there once; pass this and I'm not coming back ever again. Your greedy leeches can starve -- or at least learn a useful occupation.

[eyedigress]

The Mayans may have a case.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Zahi Hawass Halfass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities..

[Ezekiel]

"Thirty-five million tourists visit Las Vegas to see the reproduction of Luxor city while only six million visit the real Egyptian city of Luxor," the paper lamented.

Gee I can't imagine why. Let me think...

[Panzerlied]

Perhaps we should consult with that famous egyptologist, Hassin Bin Laid, before we go any further.

[Joe 6-pack]

Can corporate sponsorship be far behind?

[CaptRon]

In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.

Good luck with that.

[avg_freeper]

I told Plato he should of gotten on that.

[MrEdd]

I am patenting Air. Bow down before me...

[Misterioso]

Egyptians pay for the use of the sundries. We sell them to the consumers who then praise America for all we’ve done for them.

[pabianice]

Can we copyright soap, air conditioning

The inventor was never paid, either.

[tired1]

they’re gonna need some good Jewish lawyers for this scam.

[montag813]

"Thirty-five million tourists visit Las Vegas to see the reproduction of Luxor city while only six million visit the real Egyptian city of Luxor," the paper lamented.

Perhaps because the odds of being kidnapped and murdered by Islamist thugs in Vegas is a bit smaller than in Luxor.

[Perdogg]

What about the ancient astronauts that built the pyramids?

[mtbopfuyn]

Hahahahahaha! Just how the heck are they going to enforce it? Besides, I seriously don’t believe anyone can make a 100% copy of one anyway.

[eyedigress]

I’ll tell you what! I haven’t heard of them coming back and taking credit for anything. I’m kinda disappointed.

[Young Werther]

The Washington Monument?

[ricks_place]

The Pharaohs may have legally transfered (doubtful see below) Copyright to the Arabs under US law but the Hebrews hold a mechanics lien for unpaid wages!

US Copyright Office Transfer of Copyright

Any or all of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights or any subdivision of those rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner’s duly authorized agent. Transfer of a right on a nonexclusive basis does not require a written agreement.

[mamelukesabre]

Uh oh. What about building a pyramid? I think there’s a casino in vegas...

[GregoTX]

I need to copyright the circle

[Political Junkie Too]

"It is Egypt's right to be the only copyright owner for these monuments..."

Do the descendents of the Hebrew slaves who built them get a share of the royalties too?

-PJ

[fhayek]

After that, maybe they will copyright spheres, cubes, squares and triangles.

[eyedigress]

AlGore has already got the exhale. The inhale needs to be taken before BJ gets it.

[Eastbound]

"Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head Hustler of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, . . . "

There! Fixed it.

[Bazooka]

Coin the pyramids (pun intended). It’s beyond a joke! Just as ridiculous as that law they came up with (was it in Peru?) to tax people for rain water.

Isn’t there some revisionist that can come up with a plausible theory that the pyramids were actually designed by a Japanese-trained Korean engineer?

[rottndog]

I just want the copyright for the torus....and after that I will own donut shop in the country......every cop will bow down before me!

[rottndog]

and after that I will own every donut shop in the country...

fixed.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

The Goa'uld are going to be ticked off:

[Razz Barry]

Hawass has been trying to get the British Museum to send the Rosetta Stone to Egypt for display. For some reason the Brits don’t trust him to send it back.

[madison10]

The pyramids belong to the whole planet, not to the Egyptians. They don’t know who built them...maybe they belong to the Jews. How would that go over in Cairo?

[Duke Nukum]

Next they’ll be copyrighting Rage Boy.

[maine-iac7]

If anything is grandfathered, it's the pyramids - If they're successful with this, the whole world will soon become copyrighted. Insanity

[Boiler Plate]

I think the US should copyright Electricity and the Airplane and let everyone but the Egyptians use them for free.

[maine-iac7]

The Mayans may have a case.

LOL -= I was thinking about the Mayan prophecy about "the End" in 2012 - ditto Nostradamus, Hopi, etc...

"The End" isn't the end of the world...but a way of civilization = a new way to be brought about. Maybe God, through kerzillions of years experience in the same amount of other planets in the Super Universe, knows the average length of time a populated planet takes to either succeed or fail = and right now, it looks like the inhabitants of this planet ain't never gonna get it right.

Time to start over?

[eyedigress]

LOL, I saw that myself (bits and pieces). It made some sense, as far as end times prognosticators are concerned.

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

If the wrong judge gets hold of this, the 'penumbra' of pyramids could be used to nuke the practice of geometry all the way back to the Stune Age!

The ultimate Pyramid Scheme...


...and the Ultimate Pyramid Schemer!

This all is in fact covered under the DMCA -- the Diogenes Millennium Copyright Act.

One of the reasons for the long success of the original pyramid business model was a simple, effective word-of-mouth approach popular both among the men on the battlefields and with stay-at-home mummies. It was, simply, "I told two sphinx, and they told two sphinx, and so on and so on and so on...."

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[ApplegateRanch]

Why stop at 3,000?

I want to secure the rights to polygonal spaces inclosed by stacked (rough, stream, cut, or artificial; dry-laid or mortared) rocks, with or without roofs.

[nicmarlo]

"If the law is passed then it will be applied in all countries of the world so that we can protect our interests," Hawass said. ...

good grief!

[nicmarlo]

LOL!

[billmor]

Hello..my name is Shemuel Feldstein, great, great etc grandson of Papasan Soon Lee Feldstein born in Korea during the first dynasty of Saul Lee I. My grandfather designed the pyramids many years ago as places to store fish and grains...By my calculations, the Egyptians owe my family....trillion....carry the 000’s.....forget that- just give us Europe and Asia and we’ll call it even, ok ?

[thefactor]

i know a few egyptians. don’t plan on collecting soap royalties.

[weegee]

The muslims should be sure to patent the idea of book burning too seeing as how they did such a wonderful job with the library in Egypt.

[endthematrix]

"The pyramids belong to the whole planet, not to the Egyptians. "

That's a slippery slope, that I don't agree with. It may be declared such by a globalist UN commitee, but the structures are Egyptian. I clam no ownership to them.