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A #Belgian thingy?

Until 2016 publication of these photos would have been illegal. From the website of the #Atomium (pictured here:)
#copyright restrictions exempt private individuals (…) where photographs are taken by private individuals and shown on private websites for no commercial purpose.’

SABAM, #Belgium's society for collecting copyrights and having an illustrious reputation for claiming copyrights (even when it’s not even holding it,) has claimed worldwide intellectual property rights on all reproductions of the Atomium and has gone so far to demand a US website to remove all images from its pages.

Luckily Belgium has come to its senses and since 2016 there is freedom of panorama, allowing pictures of public buildings under copyright to be legally distributed.

#monochromemonday #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #architecture #architecturephotography #modernism #waterkeyn #polak #travel #traveltip #heizel #heysel #brussels #bruxelles #brussel #bruxellesmabelle #belgie #belgique #thisisbelgium #pentax #pentaxk1 #editedincaptureone

Two buildings of the Brussels Universal Exhibition (Brussels Expo 1935) Heysel Plateau, Laeken, Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
Architect: Joseph Van Neck
Engineer: Louis Baes

1. Brussels Expo, Palais du Centenaire (The Grand Palais du Heysel)
or Palais 5, 1930; arch. Joseph Van Neck
2. Brussels Expo Hall 2, Exhibition hall, 1935, arch. Joseph Van Neck

(Photos credit: Klaas Vermaas on Flickr); collage by SJ