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Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images

Posted by samzenpus on from the montezuma's-latest-revenge dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"

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  1. And now some real information from Mexico by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I read all the troll messages around, obviously from people that don't live in Mexico or care about us. I must made note that if you paint or use "Aztec like" patterns/people/scenery you are much safe for ***pay nothing***. I do images made on Aztec codex usually and I do not pay a single dollar. And you can do it too.

    So what is the trouble here? There are some stuff that was Copyrighted for the Mexican government and the National Institute of Archeology and History (INAH) and those are of course the Aztec Calendar, some codex and other monuments. I wonder why Americans made a of mess here: Starbucks took some copyrighted material and added it to the mugs without pay a dime and this the same thing than someone in Mexico made a DVD rip from a Hollywood flick and sells on the streets.

    Either Starbucks pays for the copyrighted images or remove the cups, this is the game of the copyright no?

  2. Re:Charge $1? Re:Copyright or "cultural heritage"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How about Mexico starts by stemming the tide of illegals coming to the US?

    Then we'll talk.