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I got side tracked over the discussion of Germany "not being amused" by this.

Wait, so this bust was made by Egyptians over 3000 years ago and the Germans are not happy someone made a scan of it!? It's almost disgusting that anyone can lay claim to this work of art! It should "belong" to ALL of us at this point.

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Wouldn't it be fantastic to be sued for selling a Nefertiti bust replica for, say, copyright or trademark infringement?

rm -rf /publicdomain

To be fair, Germans have never been very "amused" by anything.

Ha! Now you want to close all the museums of the world? Louvre, Vatican, British Museum all of them is filled of stolen pieces. What kind of subversive are you?

OT, but do the vatican museums have "stolen art"? It's been decades since I went, but I seem to recall mostly stuff made explicitly for (various incarnations of) The Church.

There is stolen stuff appropriated and variously recycled in many cathedrals/chapels/basilicas, I just don't remember it in the vatican.

http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MEZ/MEZ_Main.html

No. That wouldn't have to happen.

Germany is incredibly aggressive when it comes to intellectual "property".

How would this be protectable IP though? It's thousands of years old--doesn't Germany have a concept of the public domain?

It wasn't even known about until about 100 years ago. It's not like it's a great treasure admired throughout the ages; more of a pop-culture curiosity from the past century that was created millennia before.

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