Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images 325
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innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"
Russia only gets royalties for bear pictures (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good luck with that (Score:5, Funny)
(or so I heard)
Re:What. (Score:5, Funny)
But without copyright, those unnamed artists of millennia past might not have the motive or means to produce anything. I know if I'm an ancient artist, the first thing on my mind is how I'm going to feed the civilization that murders and conquers my own civilization hundreds of years after my death.
Amazing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where are the pictures (Score:3, Funny)
Surely they could have included a picture of the offending cups...
Then they'd have to pay too!
You think that is bad? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Copyright or "cultural heritage"? (Score:3, Funny)
That's a fad I didn't even get, honestly. Especially when people who can't read Kanji have them done. For all they know they could run around with a Mitsubishi ad tatooed on their back and they wouldn't even know.
I agree (Score:2, Funny)
This being said, I am still waiting when I can publish my, adult only, Mickey Mouse movie : "On Santa's knees".
Re:Good luck with that (Score:3, Funny)
That's like the British government suing anyone who does things based on William Shakespeare because he was English.
Please stop giving them ideas, they are bad enough already.
Re:Did the Aztec have a concept of copyright? (Score:5, Funny)
Acording to the aztec, their Tlatoani Ahuizotl, persoally killed 84,400 prisioners in four days using a stone knife...
For copyright violations? Harsh...
Re:Alot comes from "India" (Score:3, Funny)
... However, the Vedic knowledge was in its day a library about every type of field, including manuals on how to pilot aircrafts and make the fuel. However, the records are sadly too obtuse / derived orally from other sources, so are not really practical in its present shape. However, just the fact they have these records, signify this is not the first time earth have had technically advanced civilisations, even though the original records about them have been lost...
The fundamental problem was that India out sourced all its tech support to the Arabs and manufacturing to the Greeks in those Vedic times and switched from manufacturing economy to service economy. Thus it eventually lost its technological edge and then its military edge and then eventually petered out. All it had left was those manuals.
Expiration date (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sorry Mexico, your copyright expired in 1492.
Re:Did the Aztec have a concept of copyright? (Score:2, Funny)
"first.. he was iliterate... how an iliterate people can count up to 100,000"
duh, pretty easily. 1, two, seven, capital A, smiley face, beer, dragonfly, 100,000.
Counting's not rocket surgery.