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A #Belgian thingy?

Until 2016 publication of these photos would have been illegal. From the website of the #Atomium (pictured here:)
#copyright restrictions exempt private individuals (…) where photographs are taken by private individuals and shown on private websites for no commercial purpose.’

SABAM, #Belgium's society for collecting copyrights and having an illustrious reputation for claiming copyrights (even when it’s not even holding it,) has claimed worldwide intellectual property rights on all reproductions of the Atomium and has gone so far to demand a US website to remove all images from its pages.

Luckily Belgium has come to its senses and since 2016 there is freedom of panorama, allowing pictures of public buildings under copyright to be legally distributed.

#monochromemonday #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #architecture #architecturephotography #modernism #waterkeyn #polak #travel #traveltip #heizel #heysel #brussels #bruxelles #brussel #bruxellesmabelle #belgie #belgique #thisisbelgium #pentax #pentaxk1 #editedincaptureone

One of the #bodyguards in #US #Secretary of State Marco #Rubio's #security detail was arrested by #Brussels #police at the famous hotel #Amigo in the #Belgian capital on 31 March. The security agent was taken into custody after reportedly arguing with staff at the hotel and fighting with police.

brusselstimes.com/1526014/brus

www.brusselstimes.comBrussels police arrest US State Secretary Rubio's bodyguardBy The Brussels Times