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April 05, 2005
Millennium Park (Chicago) is a copyrighted public space!
This is a little old by now, but the whole affair is still going on:
By way of (sub)urbanism.blogspot.com: "In keeping with the contemporary trends of privatizing public space, Millennium Park is a copyrighted public space... The [Chicago] Reader [the printed version of the newspaper] recounts the experience of photojournalist Warren Wimmer's attempts to photograph Anish Kapoor's sculpture, Cloud Gate (more commonly known as "the Bean"). When Wimmer set up his tripod and camera to shoot the sculpture, security guards stopped him, demanding that they show him a permit. Wimmer protested, replying that it's absurd that one needs to pay for a permit to photograph public art in a city-owned park... Ben Joravsky, the author of the Reader article, attempted to contact park officials for an explanation and received a response from Karen Ryan, press director for the park's project director: 'The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works, especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that artist.' Hence, Millennium Park--a nascent destination for countless citizens and tourists that was built with $270 million in city funds--is slowly emerging as Chicago's most privatized public space. Photographers beware!"
Posted by susana at April 5, 2005 05:36 PM
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