Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!ames!pacbell.com!uop!csus.edu!netcom.com!digdiv From: digdiv@netcom.com (Digital Diversions) Subject: Re: Copywrite on old paintings Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <1994May5.025625.29933@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au> <768158167snz@walkden.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:47:28 GMT Lines: 13 Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au) wrote: : philip@walkden.demon.co.uk (Philip Howells) writes: : >I've always understood this to be the case but interestingly, when I was at the : >Louvre Musuem in Paris last week the authorities made no attempt to stop the : >photographing of any exhibit. True they don't permit tripods but they openly : Then it's changed some since I visited in '86. Back then, the only : English words in the entire museum (at least, I couldn't find any : others) were the words "NO PHOTOGRAPHS". A member of the group I Same when I was there - NO PHOTOGRAPHS. I guess tourism has gone down since then and they need to entice people to get in. (Just a thought).