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But Can You Copyright Taste?

By Administrator on December 28, 2007 12:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Aahh the lovely Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. A vision of American good taste. Shaped like the great Pyramid with a beautiful re-creation of the Sphinx standing guard. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Wafd recently lamented that more tourists visit the Luxor each year than the real thing. The paper proposed that the hotel pay a royalty for use of the images. A few days later, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities proposed a law that would forbid persons around the world from making copies of the country's treasures. Unless, of course, they paid a fee. Now that would be some interesting litigation.

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