![]() In fact case law on this topic is almost exclusively about postal cards. That's why Shutterstock can't have a photo of the Eiffel tower at night. However if your job is to sell photos of the Eiffel tower at night or any other copyrighted work without making any other point than "here is a photo of the monument" you will need the author's authorisation. Therefore a video including a picture of the pyramid of the louvre is fine when you are making a point about copyright law in France because the topic of the video is copyright law and the pyramid is just an illustration. The second exception, and the most relevant here is that in order for the law to apply, the copyrighted material has to be the topic of the support it is included in. You could open a shop selling photos of an aerial view of Paris and you'd be fine. Thus, the photo of an aerial view of Paris is always perfectly fine since non of the work included are the center of the photo. Indeed the French cour de cassation (France hightest court) made it pretty clear that there are some exceptions.įirst, this law only applies when the copyrighted work is on the foreground. ![]() Therefore it is illegal to sell pictures of copyrighted material but there is a massive querk. French law prohibits commercial use of a copyrighted work without the author's authorisation. There is a reason for that.īasically what he explaines is correct. He mentions that the French copyright law has never been enforced with regard to the Eiffel tower. That myth is on Wikipedia and has been unfortunately repeated countless times on several YouTube channels.
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