BIBLIOTHEKE

Last week it was the Eiffel Tower, now it’s Chicago’s Millenium Park and, in particular, the Bean. This week’s Chicago Reader relates the story of a local photographer’s run-in with security while trying to take photos of this public park. Article author Ben Joravsky contacted the park director’s office and got this response from his press assistant:

“The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works, especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that artist.”

She followed that with this significant point:

“artists are increasingly sophisticated about copyrights and this is standard practice for today’s artists … this was not the case years ago.”

If this trend keeps up, you’ll need a team of lawyers for every shot of a city skyline.

UPDATE: From Boing Boing, add photos of the bean to this Flickr gallery.

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