27 Dec 2007
How to copyright Michelangelo

This just keeps getting more ridiculous - yesterday it was the Pyramids, today it's the Sistine Chapel...

Some of the world's greatest artworks are turning into copyrighted properties.Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Today, those images are copyrighted. How can ancient cultural icons become commercial properties, centuries after they fall into the public domain?

(link) [The Register]

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