Yeah it's disgusting. Witness the fight to copyright architecture, so that folks must ask for permission to take photos of public buildings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_architecture_in_t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_architecture_in_t...
"First, when a building is ordinarily visible from a public place, its protection as an "architectural work" does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work.[13] Thus, the architect will not be able to prevent people from taking photographs or otherwise producing pictorial representations of the building. "
For example, it's illegal to photograph the Eiffel Tower at night when its lights are lit: