Imitation of Art
Interesting article in the New York Times on architectural plagiarism. Apparently, architecture wasn't covered by intellectual property law in the U.S. until 1990!
UPDATE! Here's the slide show from the NYTimes if you don't want to subscribe or want to look at this next week.
Art Museum of Western Virginia by Randall Stout (Top) vs. The Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry Superstar (Bottom)
UPDATE! Here's the slide show from the NYTimes if you don't want to subscribe or want to look at this next week.
Office Tower in Marseilles by Zaha Hadid (Left) vs. Airport Lounge Partition by SHoP (Right)
Eyebeam Museum proposals by Thomas Leeser (Left) and Diller & Scofidio (Right, and also the winner)
Art Museum of Western Virginia by Randall Stout (Top) vs. The Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry Superstar (Bottom)
posted by Arazu at
10:37 PM
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I thought you might find this blog interesting: http://cityofsound.com/blog/ it's an architecture blog that tackles other areas of urban living, including music. I thought you might find it interesting.
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Anonymous, at 10:25 AM
To say that architectural works received no copyright protection prior to 1990 isn't quite true. Prior to 1990, copyright law viewed architectural works like all useful objects (e.g. tables, lamps, blowdriers). For useful objects, copyright protection extends to those elements in a structure that are ornamental, and physically or conceptually separable from its overall utilitarian design. So architectural works were in fact protectable, but because the shape of the buildings were usually considered utilitarian, courts rarely extended the protection beyond the little sculptures of monsters hanging off the buildings.
Under the Architectural Works Protection Act of 1990, architectural works were explicitly recognized as protectable under the Copyright Act. Now buildings and their designs are now fully protectable, unless the elements are functionally required or unoriginal.
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Anonymous, at 6:05 PM
Where are those MP3s I demanded?
Will the buildings in your city be hurricane-proof?
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Anonymous, at 10:42 AM
Oops, that was me.
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Anonymous, at 10:42 AM
Nicole, that looks like a cool website.
Sef, I'm glad that we're putting your education to good use. That's very interesting.
Anonymous/Dan k., you'll get your mp3's, but I haven't had a chance to get at 'em. I'll let you know when they go up, though.
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Arazu, at 11:13 AM
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