Perang blog versus hak cipta pematung di Chicago

Boing Boing: Please add photos of Chicago's ridiculous Millennium Park private sculpture: "Monday, February 7, 2005
Please add photos of Chicago's ridiculous Millennium Park private sculpture
Last night, I posted about a sculpture called 'Cloud Gate' in Chicago's publicly funded $270,000,000 park that the public isn't allowed to photograph, because the city says that the artist retains the copyright in the object. I think that Chicagoans should pressure their city government to melt the thing down for slag and then fire the idiot who signed that deal on behalf of the citizens of Chicago.

In the meantime, Chicagoans can go, en masse, to this sculpture, and shoot lots of pictures of it. The link below goes to a Flickr gallery of existing photos of the sculpture. Go add your own! Link (Thanks, Hugh!)

Update: Brian McCartney sez, 'Just a note, the piece was not publicly paid for, it was a gift from SBC Communcations. Not that it matters, it's still totally bogus.' Too right -- the public are still paying for this, not just in upkeep, but in the tax-break to SBC, in the maintenance of the object, in the policing to stop photogs, and most of all in the cost to the public nature of its space that comes from having an unphotographable object splatted right in the middle of an otherwise very nice park.

Update 2:Rob DeRose sez, 'I just thought you should know something in regards to the Millennium Park Bean/'Cloudgate' sculpture. Nobody can take a picture of in until early/mid April (probably). Its under a tent getting its seams polished out. So nobody please venture out into the chilly Chicago winter until you see it on the Chicago local news. Chicagoist will also probably make a note of it when the tent comes off.' Fair enough! For now, I guess it's just a matter of uploading your existing pix. "

Situs flickrnya: http://flickr.com/photos/search/tags:cloud+gate/tagmode:any/

Dimulai dari larangan pemerintah kota Chicago untuk memotret patung di taman kota (raung publik) kecuali atas ijin pemegang hak cipta, boing2 mengajak para pembacanya di chicago untuk meletakkan foto2 yang mereka miliki di flikr dan juga mendorong blogger untuk membuat foto (yang dilarang itu) dan meletakkannya di Flickr. Ini merupakan tindakan social disobedience deh, tapi menarik untuk mengikuti perkembangannya. Kayanya belum ada respon dari pemerintah kota Chicago atau sang artis dan pihak penyumbang (rupanya patung itu sumbangan juga sih).

Hal lain yang serupa adalah bahwa menara Eiffel yang merupakan lambang paling terkenal di kota Paris juga sekarang menajdi obyek hak cipta, sejak pemerintah kota menambahkan lampu2 dan mengkalim hak ciptanya. Wah perang hak cipta dan ruang publik bakal kena imbasnya pada pertarungan propriatory software versus open source dah aku yakin, karena sama2 tentang hak cipta dan publik. Tapi bagaiman persisnya wah gak ngerti deh. Makanya perlu mengikuti terus.