Do the descendents of the Hebrew slaves who built them get a share of the royalties too?
-PJ
Posted on 12/25/2007 7:10:11 PM PST by 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."
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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.
I’ll tell you what! I haven’t heard of them coming back and taking credit for anything. I’m kinda disappointed.
The Washington Monument?
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.
Uh oh. What about building a pyramid? I think there’s a casino in vegas...
I need to copyright the circle
Do the descendents of the Hebrew slaves who built them get a share of the royalties too?
-PJ
After that, maybe they will copyright spheres, cubes, squares and triangles.
AlGore has already got the exhale. The inhale needs to be taken before BJ gets it.
There! Fixed it.
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?
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!
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?
Next they’ll be copyrighting Rage Boy.
If anything is grandfathered, it's the pyramids - If they're successful with this, the whole world will soon become copyrighted. Insanity
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?
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