![]() ![]() For my length of trip, it tends to be the best deal among the major providers. I’ve tried a few and the winner for me is T-Mobile. Having a reasonably-priced SIM with voice and data is thus very important to coordinate everything. In my case, in particular, I visit a lot of people in a lot of places. ![]() ![]() When we travel to the US, we often have a lot of activities planned. I don’t have all of the answers here, but I do have some tips for a few given countries. When traveling in 2015, some of the biggest concerns often relate to cellular and data connectivity. For better or worse, the government is supposed to work for the people. I understand that the EU is hot to increase consistency across borders, which may often be beneficial, but this is the wrong direction to go. So you’re either going to have broad copyright protection of outdoor sights and no compliance or very limited copyright protection of outdoor sights and high compliance.īecause European lawmakers are clueless, there have been recent attempts to eliminate freedom of panorama exemptions all across the EU. Tourists are not going to navigate a minefield of legal nuance when taking photos. I complain all the time about the prevalence of cameras in public, but I’m not crazy. The fact that freedom of panorama isn’t the rule everywhere shows a huge disconnect with reality. These copyrights are being infringed all the time and it’s only going to get worse. My problem with all of this is practicality. Therefore, sharing photos of the Eiffel Tower lit up at night is copyright infringement if prior permission is not received from the organization that runs the tower. In my understanding, the structure’s copyright has already expired, but the lights on it at night are considered an art installation and thus receive copyright protection of their own. A famous example of this involves the Eiffel Tower. People who own copyrights on buildings or outdoor art exhibits enjoy copyright protection even from small time photographers. In France, there is no freedom of panorama. Also, importantly, freedom of panorama does not apply inside buildings, such as museums. It’s my understanding that one resident can even opt his entire apartment building out. I don’t know the legal theory behind this, and it seems to be related to data privacy, but residents in Germany can opt-out of being pictured on Street View. Also they have been drawing a strange distinction for large-scale mapping, and this is why Google Street view has a handful of blurred out houses in Germany. There are restrictions on sharing photographs of people. Germany is considered to have freedom of panorama, so outdoor public spaces can generally be photographed and shared as long as the photographer is standing on the ground. Here, the right to share photographs varies by country. There are pros and cons, but a big positive aspect is that this is generally compatible with the realities of rapidly-advancing technology for taking and sharing photographs. In my understanding, this scheme would not be considered true freedom of panorama due to the artwork exceptions. There is a line, in that we cannot use a telescope to look in windows, for example. With minor exceptions (artwork, for example), one can take photos in public and use them as desired. In the US, we have a scheme that considers most things that are outdoors and visible to the naked eye to be for public consumption and sharing. Really any time the European Union or the individual European states pass a new law or make a ruling, it’s sure to be comical.īut today I want to write about “freedom of panorama.” This is actually an exception to copyright law, in that the person who designed a building has a copyright on its appearance.
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