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Why can’t you take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night?

Posted on by quatest
07
Jan

Despite being a tourist attraction du famous calendar of the city, but taking photos of the Eiffel Tower at night is a violation of creative copyright. According to European copyright law, architectural works are protected during the life of the author plus 70 years after the author’s death. The architect of the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel, passed away in 1924, so in 1993 it was put into public works. But there was still a small problem The tower was installed by Pierre Bideau in 1985, which means that nighttime photos and videos capturing the tower’s light show are still protected by law.

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Technically according to La Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) the company that operates the tower those who want to Posting photos requires permission to pay copyright fees and edit the photo properly if you do not want to be fined. This law mainly targets those who use photos of the Eiffel Tower for commercial purposes For personal purposes, there is no need to worry too much about this law. However, to be more careful, people should add the caption “By SETE – Illuminations Pierre Bideau” to the photo to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Photographer Marc Nouss said “This is an architecture that is photographed thousands of times every day. I still take pictures without mentioning anything like everyone else selling a photo of the Eiffel Tower taken at night.”

Photographer Aurore Alifanti also agreed, “If you share the photo as an image of France, there will be no problem.”< /p>

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