[antiRepublicrat]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[antiRepublicrat]

The Copyfraud ping: copyright, patent and trademark abuse, and general abuse of laws in the digital age.
If you want on or off the Copyfraud Ping List, Freepmail me.

[mthom]

I think point and laugh is the proper response.

[ASOC]

I would say - laugh. The entire notion is not only laughable, but a sad commentary on how completely bankrupt the ‘Arab culture’ (and I use that label VERY loosely) has become.

[Paleo Conservative]

Pay up MGM!

[Born to Conserve]

If they stopped killing tourists they could make a bundle.

Don’t copywrites expire 100 years after the death of the author/artist?

[neodad]

Minature golf courses around the country are in a panic.

[NormsRevenge]

The money was needed to maintain thousands of pharaonic sites

..

My recommendation to Zahi Hawass ..

Stop digging.

[lightman]

Zahi Hawass, who chairs Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told the BBC the law would apply in all countries.

And just how does Egypt plan to enforce this in other countries?

[ElkGroveDan]

he said claims by the hotel that it was "the only pyramid-shaped building in the world" could no longer be made.

There are lots of them:

West Sacramento:

San Francisco

Paris:

North Korea

[Cicero]

Lots of luck enforcing this outside of Egypt.

[Cicero]

Lots of luck enforcing this outside of Egypt.

Egypt hardly has a patent on the basic pyramid shape. Similar structures are found all over the world by people who never saw the Egyptian pyramids.

Miamisburg Mound, Ohio, USA

This mound is conical, like Silbury Hill in England. Archaeologists believe that it was constructed by the Adena Indians (800 BC – 100 AD). The mound sits on a 100 foot high bluff, and measures 877 feet in circumference. Originally it attained a height of 70 feet.

[kinghorse]

We were days from opening our new 200,000,000 sq foot Great Pyramid Retail and Incense Emporium in Torrance. Largest of it’s kind in the world, next to some firecracker stand in Hyderabad, India. Now what? What do you tell your workers who have been slaving to get the place built before the Holiday Season? Sorry guys but some Egyptians got around to copyrighting their floor plan 2,300 years after first consulting their lawyers? And we are supposed to believe this? Our lawyers will be waiting for the call. We’re not taking down one of the 346,892 60X60 126 ton granite blocks without a fight!

[LachlanMinnesota]

DOn’t you have to be the author of an idea or an expression of an idea to receive a copyright?

These Egyptians did not create this expression...therefore they sould not be able to claim that they did and receive copyright protections.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Sounds like liberals looking for a new cash teat. Hey and if they succeed we can pay them with dollar bills which also has a pyramid in our national seal?

[zeugma]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

My response is "good luck with that".