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Posted on 12/25/2007 7:10:11 PM PST by FreedomCalls
CAIRO (AFP) — In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.
Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP on Tuesday that the move was necessary to pay for the upkeep of the country's thousands of pharaonic sites.
"The new law will completely prohibit the duplication of historic Egyptian monuments which the Supreme Council of Antiquities considers 100-percent copies," he said.
"If the law is passed then it will be applied in all countries of the world so that we can protect our interests," Hawass said. ...
"It is Egypt's right to be the only copyright owner for these monuments in order to benefit financially so we can restore, preserve and protect Egyptian monuments." ...
Hawass's declarations came after the opposition daily Al-Wafd published an article on Sunday called for the Las Vegas hotel to pay a slice of its lodging and gambling profits to the city of Luxor.
"Thirty-five million tourists visit Las Vegas to see the reproduction of Luxor city while only six million visit the real Egyptian city of Luxor," the paper lamented.
Samir Farag, head of Luxor town council in southern Egypt, home to the legendary Valley of the Kings, said that it would be difficult to prohibit use of pyramid shapes.
"We can't forbid people from using the name of Luxor and copying monuments from (Luxor) city, which is the world's richest city for monuments," he said, adding that "tourists going to Las Vegas doesn't affect our city's business."
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I invented toilet paper.
I WIN!
Well since the wheelbarrow has been known since ancient times, they would no more have been able to patent the wheelbarrow than they would have been able to patent the wheel itself (which also has no patent).
[Ultimate Pyramid Schemer!]
Perfect name, lol. Enjoyed your ‘fun and pun’!
C2CAM had a guy on commenting on this.
Beyond the legalese, Hawass makes this statement on Christmas, and makes it while the proposed "law" is still under consideration.
So, he's grandstanding, and according to the guest, Zahi got hit in the head by falling debris at a excavation, damaging, at least, his vision, and even a trip to US ophthalmologists wasn't successful enough for him to continue to be the antiquities czar for much longer.
IOW, it's his swan song before announcing retirement.
I'll finally be able to get caught up on my credit cards!
Mark
Some Frenchman copywrited the smiley face. The copywrite is not enforcable in the U.S., where the logo originated, because the originator did not copywrite it and it was deemed to have passed into the public domain. Courts outside the U.S have recognized the copywrite of a third party who was not involved in its creation.
I doubt that this “copywrite” will be recognized in the U.S. One can safely say that the pyramids have passed into the public domain.
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Because there are no homicidal bombers in Las Vegas?
Wasn’t there a more ancient group named the Hor-she-shu who actually built the pyramids? The Egyptians painted them (graffiti) but did not build them. You ever hear about this?
Nope, I think they did invent that backyard game though. :’)
There’s evidence for a predynastic age for the Sphinx, but in any case, the causeway built for the second-largest pyramid (Khafre) was angled to miss the Sphinx, and there is at least one New Kingdom-era copy of an Old Kingdom-era record indicating that the Sphinx antedated Khufu.
law says your point is a bingo......
Mysterious Inscription on the Great Pyramid
RobertSchoch.net | 2004 | Robert Schoch
Posted on 01/30/2005 12:57:01 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1331709/posts
I Have Solved The Riddle Of The Sphinx, Says Frenchman
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-14-2004 | Nic Fleming
Posted on 12/13/2004 5:36:33 PM PST by blam
67 posted on 12/14/2004 9:25:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300743/posts?page=67#67
brilliant.
Lol, looks like it shaved the top of the sphinx’ head off!
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All part of my diabolical plan
Jews built the pyramids. That makes them the original owners of the patent and the copyright of the pyramid image. Today, the Jews in Israel and the West are invent astonishing new biomedical, engineering and telecommunications technology that help Egyptians and the rest of the world. Today at least the Jews can publish their discoveries and apply for patents and receive a huge percentage of the Nobel Prizes in the sciences way out of promotion to their numbers in the population. Did Egypt say thanks then or now?
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