Egypt to copyright the pyramids  

If a law is enacted in Egypt it will be impossible to enforce in the US or other countries unless they enact the same law as Egypt.

I guess they have too much time on their hands too.

I'll bet they will have a hard time collecting royalties on monuments that they didn't build.

If someone were to build an exact replica of a pyramid they could take a marker and draw a line on the replica and it would no longer be an exact replica.

See.... that just sounds silly to me.
It should sound silly to you too.

This is very interesting. I think it will be hard to enforce if this law is passed. People in any country could design pyramids and it would be difficult to prove because they would have a carry out an investigation sometimes thousands of miles away from Egypt. It is great that artists would still be able to paint copies of the pyramids but it would be unfair it they not allowed to have true likeness to them. I flew over the pyramids when I was on my way home from Kenya. I got the most magical view and next time I would love to see them from ground level.

Are you serious? Is it possible for Egypt to come up with such an absurd argument?
Such monuments belongs to everybody not only to Egypt itself! Otherwise we have to stop writing cause we have to pay for royalties to Greece, for the alphabet!

Btw the first pyramids (in lower scale) were first constructed in ancient greece, in mycenae, did you know that?

Egyptians don't fire your guns at me cause you have to pay to the chinese the royalties for gunpowder! Absurd!

My guess is they heard about Rowlings law suits against buildings that kind of look like Hogwarts. LOL

Egyptian law wouldn't be enforceable in the United States. I don't understand what the point of doing such a thing would be because they don't specifically "own" the things. They've been in existence longer than the government has. Can I ask where you heard that they were doing this from? Because it just doesn't make any sense. They can't pass a law in their country and expect other nations to abide by or enforce their laws. Even if they did, there is such a thing as a "grandfather clause" which would, to a certain degree, protect things that predate the existence of such a law.

Either way, I think it's got to be bogus. How can a Government take such an idiotic stance on something so silly? Next thing you know the Vatican is going to try to copyright images of Jesus.

This sounds kinda retarded. Reproduction of the pyramids and the Sphinx. Ok. Is that for 1:1 scale reproductions or all scales? If a pyramid is made without the weathering damage that the originals have, is it still a reproduction? And if it is, shouldn't Egypt pay the reproducer for removing the flaws in said reproduction? What if the reproduction is actually of a Mayan Pyramid? Do the Mayan descendants get any royalties so that they can pay Egypt royalties for their ancestors having built their pyramids after the Egyptians built theirs? For the answers to these questions and more, tune in to the next episode of SOAP. I really need more idle time on my hands...

I don't know but if they charge for present replicas, then the Luxor is on the list. Hehe I've been there before lol. But some pyramids aren't modeled after Egypt. Some are modeled after the Aztec ones. I guess they will weed them all out. I think it's dumb though. It's just a monument and they didn't build it, their ancestors did. What a load!

Thats not a bad Idea at all. Infact, I believe India(I am an Indian) should copyright the Great 'Taj Mahal' & monuments like 'Kutub Minar'.. its quite practical. This is a materialistic world & everything has a price attached to it.

First off, the term "copyright" is not the correct term. Copyrights apply to poetry, writing and music. This would be more of a trademark than a copyright. And there is no way that international law is going to enforce it. And if it is enforced, people will just quit building exact reproductions, nothing more. I wish them luck with their silly tax. Obvivuosly, they are short on money to even consider this one.

It seems very .. strange. Would Egypt then be able to use the Eiffel Tower of the Statue of Liberty in a movie without paying royalties to their home countries?

I think this is a stupid idea.