Side note: You actually need permission to use pictures of the Eiffel Tower if it is illuminated. In other words "it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_c...
This happens quite a bit. I took a nice photo of the Asahi building[0] in Tokyo and tried to add it to Wikipedia, only to be told that the gold embellishment on top was considered sculpture under Japanese law and therefore subject to copyright and not permissible on Wikimedia.
In some countries even just regular buildings are considered copyrighted if they have at all nontrivial decoration or design, and photos of them require permission of the person/company that holds the design copyright on the facade. The keyword to find each country's laws is "freedom of panorama", an exception to copyright law that allows photographing public places, even if the photograph includes something copyrighted. Some countries give a blanket exception; others give an exception only for buildings (but not sculptures or other artwork that appears in public, which can complicate photographing a building if it also has sculptures); and those differ on whether it includes only building exteriors or also photographs of the interiors of public lobbies; still others have freedom of panorama but only for non-commercial use; etc.
Thank you for enlightening me on this issue. I had no idea this kind of thing was even desirable for sovereign territories, let alone actually in place legally. The lengths some people will go...
