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2007-12-26 Africa North

Egypt to copyright pyramids to the sphinx

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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Nuts.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-26 00:06|| 2007-12-26 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Pyramid on every $bill since before Egypt's current constitution.

We have prior art.

Posted by motorola 2007-12-26 01:11|| 2007-12-26 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a book waiting to be written about Mr. Zahi Hawass. I see his oily smile on all the many, many Egypt/pyramid/archaeology shows on Discovery/TLC et al.

He is also apparently the sole gatekeeper for all work and analysis of this generation of Egyptologists.

I'd like to know who his patrons are. He must have many friends in very high places.

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-26 02:12|| 2007-12-26 02:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Pyramids belong to Egyptian Arabs because they've (in effect) exterminated the People who build them?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-26 02:24|| 2007-12-26 02:24|| Front Page Top

#5 This takes the concept of intellectual property to a ridiculous level.

Posted by Slats Elmuns6921 2007-12-26 03:07|| 2007-12-26 03:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps this can trigger a return to the original intent of IP

"The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

NOT for life... NOT for heirs and descendants throughout the ages...

Posted by john frum 2007-12-26 07:32|| 2007-12-26 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 NOT for life... NOT for heirs and descendants throughout the ages...

But for as long as Hollyweird, the MPAA and RIAA can keep bribing your Congresscritters. At which, they have been very successful.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-26 07:56|| 2007-12-26 07:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Good luck trying to enforce it.

Posted by Mike 2007-12-26 09:27|| 2007-12-26 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Did somebody make a copy?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-12-26 11:35|| 2007-12-26 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Retro-active no doubt:

So that means every dollar bill should result in $.02 going to Egypt? Or does the eyeball at the top make it something different?

Posted by Gruse the Slender8869 2007-12-26 11:57|| 2007-12-26 11:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Gonna be hard collecting from the Aztecs, Incas, Mississippians, Poverty Point culture, and Hopewell/Adena. Independent development is, AFAICR, an absolute defense.

Now, if you want real justice, the Copts would sue the various mosques for damages.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-12-26 12:20|| 2007-12-26 12:20|| Front Page Top

#12 And we give them how many billion per year in aid? Ingrate(s)...

Posted by Raj 2007-12-26 12:22|| 2007-12-26 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 However, the law does not forbid local or international artists from profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and Egyptian monuments from all erasas long as they dont make exact copies.

Hmmm... I must've missed that when I read the Book of Exodus.

Posted by mrp 2007-12-26 12:49|| 2007-12-26 12:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Gruse the Slender8869, the angle is different, Zahi does not have da beef. You can't put an intellectual property clause on a basic geometrical shape. Period. Make a knotted pyramid and that would be a different story. But then, what woul be the use for it?

But Hawas apparently wants to shoot the golden goose. Greedy idiot.

Copts should sue, not for IP rights, but for a willful destruction of their heritage (dismantled casing of GP was used for building Cairo mosques).

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-26 13:06|| 2007-12-26 13:06|| Front Page Top

#15 h'okay, could just take it out of the interest owed for moving those dam monuments away from de nile creek.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-26 14:28|| 2007-12-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Did Hawass release a version of his statement in the English language? If so, the British government should demand a percentage.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-12-26 15:27|| 2007-12-26 15:27|| Front Page Top

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