Kind of a niche, but the open world Spiderman video games stopped including the Chrysler Building due to licensing issues after it was bought by new owners in ~2019

The building going into public domain is actually pretty sweet. Here in Portland we have this really cool looking statue in front of our city hall called the Portlandia statue (way before the show). You'd think it would be shown all over in pictures of our city, but the guy that made it owns the copyright and enforces the shit out of it. Because of that it's entirely unknown. No one wants to publish a picture and pay him. When that enters public down in a SUPER long time it will be easily published and folks might actually know it exists.

https://www.wweek.com/archive/2024/03/24/why-the-portlandia-...

> i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you do with a buidling?

I guess maybe the design of the building, if anything? If that will become public domain, expect it to appear in Macau in a year or less, and probably other places :)

There was some crank that once C&D'd a minecraft server for reproducing copyrighted buildings. I dont think he had the guts to take it to court though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2IiZvg1xQ

You wouldn't download a building.

The Eiffel Tower isnt copyrighted, obviously, but the 1985 light design at night is, so you may need permission to use photos of it commercially

Also the writer Pär Lagerkvist, nobel award winner