Quotes are from the article (fair use, doncha know!).
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[ are my $0.02 ]

"The city has no plans to interfere with picture-taking tourists, say
Mr. Kleeman and Chicago Law Department spokesman Jennifer Hoyle. They
would be protected by the federal Copyright Act's "fair use" exemption."

[This tourist uses an 8x10 viewcamera on a massive tripod.  I vacation
with my assistants who chase people out of the way for my snaps.]

"But even in cases of commercial infringement, enforcing copyright
ordinarily involves suing those who sell violating products, not
preventing them from making copies."

[So, get a policy paper from the city and tell the security people to
read it (assumption here) and then bugger off.]

The issue of works of art that take up so much room in a public venue
and dominate landscapes will lead, I believe, to a finding that they are
public domain simply becasue they are unavoidable to the eye or lens.

Like a building shot from the street.

good article.  More stew for the pot.

Cheers,
Alan.

From the article...

"The city has no plans to interfere with picture-taking tourists, say
Mr. Kleeman and Chicago Law Department spokesman Jennifer Hoyle. They
would be protected by the federal Copyright Act's "fair use"
exemption"

Well they sure as hell ran me out of there mumbling something about
copyright protection. I posted about my experience at the *bean* about
a month ago. It is a cool sculpture, next time you're in Chicago take
some pictures but be prepared to get hassled.

RP©

I guess the issue depends on whether you have ever created any work of
art you felt compelled to defend.

Copyright, in the US, gives every artist the right to produce copies
or representations of their own work.

Just because I'm an artist and I display my work does that give
another visual artist (a photographer) the right to sell
representations of what I have created?

If that were the case than I could walk into the Chateau Laurier, in
Ottawa, Canada, (for those not familiar) where Yousef Karsh had his
studio and has on display in the lobby some beautiful portraits of
Einstein and Winston Churchill and rephotograph them and sell them.

Tourists can photograph the lobby of the hotel, they can photograph
the prints, but you can bet the hammer would come down the instant
they tried to sell images of the lobby or the pictures. Which is why
the cops in Chicago take great pains to point out that pros (people
who sell their images) shouldn't be photographing the "Bean".

I do agree that prior restraint isn't the best way to enforce
copyright and that isn't the job of the police, but we are talking
about rentacops.

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No ball-playing
No shooting the bean
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There goes the tourist trade                             Bob Hickey