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."

[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.

[weegee]

Be grateful they don’t blow them up like they blew up the ancient Buddhist statues in March of 2001 because they “offended Islam”.

[weegee]

WILL Egypt be using the money they collect to pay reparations to the slaves of Egypt who built the pyramids and to Moses’ people, etc, etc?

[weegee]

Pshaw. My caveman uncle invented the wheel. The world will pay.

[nicmarlo]

Yeah....I saw that point made up thread and that is a MOST EXCELLENT point. The audacity to demand copyrights on something they enslaved others to build. Outrageous.

[weegee]

You can have it back when I’m done with it.

[atomic conspiracy]

“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.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s notable lack of influence in Vegas may be a factor here.

[weegee]

Islamic Law is fine with the concept of slavery.

The footage I saw of the Arab Street on 9-11-2001 is enough to make me boycott Egyptian vacations for the next 50 years until all of those who cheered the deaths of people that day are themselves dead. They won’t be seeing a dime of my money, not even the paper bills with pyramids on the back.

[onedoug]

Musliming in on progress again, eh?

[nicmarlo]

The footage I saw of the Arab Street on 9-11-2001 is enough to make me boycott Egyptian vacations for the next 50 years until all of those who cheered the deaths of people that day are themselves dead.

That was grotesque!

[nicmarlo]

I can still hear those women ovulating with glee over the deaths of 3,000 innocents....those sounds in my head will never go away....nor will my repulsion.