Are you aware of any UK case law that supports that interpretation?

My understanding is that manufactured articles are not copyright (see page 4 of the link in my post above) but that the original design drawings might be. Manufactured articles "may" contain a different kind of Intellectual Property known as "Design Right" - this document explains design right


Andrew

Copyright exists to protect the rights of authors to financially exploit their creativity. In the case of an architect, the architectural drawings created would constitute intellectual property (i.e. they would be copyright). It would, therefore, be a breach of that copyright for anyone to construct a building using those drawings without the architects explicit permission.

I don't think that a constructed building is copyright in any meaningful sense. It is the design of the building that is copyright, not the building itself. The only potential breach of copyright that I can imagine would occur if someone photographed the building with the intention of "reverse engineering" it and producing a set of architectural drawings from those photographs to allow a duplicate building to be constructed. This would, I suspect be deemed to be theft of the intellectual property contained within the architects original drawings.

The photoshopped image is an interesting issue. It could be argued that the edits were creative in their own right and, therefore constituted intellectual property that belonged to the editor unless agreed otherwise by those commissioning the work. The photoshopped version of the image might have copyright shared between the photographer and the editor.

Although there are lots of other references on the internet about copyright, I came across this document this morning which looks interesting and maybe well resolve some of these issues (I haven't fully read it yet).


Andrew

The main reason why low pressure sodium lamps are used for street lighting is because it is the most efficient light source - i.e. you get more lumens per watt, so they are cheaper to install and run. Most things boil down to economics in the end.


Andrew

As Stefan says, the light from a low pressure sodium lamp is not a continuous spectrum. It consists primarily of two closely spaced yellow spectral lines. These lamps are often used in physics labs, as they provide the nearest thing available to a monochromatic light source. See this Wiki about sodium lamps

You simply cannot filter out the yellow/orange light - because that's pretty much all there is.

Andrew

Don't get too jealous. Tuesday is the day on which Oldham council empty the bins. Today is Tuesday. I took this photo less than an hour ago. As you may have guessed, the bins are unemptied.





Andrew

A Xmas day photo - taken just before noon at Bishop Park, Oldham. We now have snow AND fog ......

[IMG]http://www.moorside.net/photos/ukcs/snow07.jpg[/IMG]


Andrew

Sooo lucky?

The council haven't emptied the bins. On Xmas day I'm now going to have to drive over 100 miles to collect relatives who don't have a 4x4. The sky dumped another couple of inches overnight. I'm going to have to shift snow off the drive yet again. Oh - and it's just started snowing ......

Lucky?? It looks nice when the sun is shining - but I think the novelty is wearing off.

Here - have a depressing photo .....





Andrew

We still have quite a bit. It's perishing cold too. The first two were taken today with a K200D and kit lens.

In the field at the back ....



In the garden ....



It's still hard packed across some of the side-roads too (taken yesterday, but it still looks the same now ....




Andrew

You might find this thread interesting. Charge/discharge tests were carried over a 3 month period on several brands of low self-discharge rechargeables. The results suggest that eneloops and hybrios come out best and are pretty close.


Andrew

This is the full frame for mine, just resized to 800 pixels wide. The crop was 850 pixels wide resized to 800 square.





Andrew