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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.

Due to having to sort it out repeatedly, I think Wikimedia has the most up-to-date rundown of each country's laws on the subject: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panora...



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