Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images

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?"

Comments

Re:Good luck with that

[tomhudson]

... especially since the real copyright owners are aliens who visited the Aztecs around 2000 BC.

(or so I heard)

Re:What.

[zippthorne]

But without copyright, those unnamed artists of millennia past might not have the motive or means to produce anything. I know if I'm an ancient artist, the first thing on my mind is how I'm going to feed the civilization that murders and conquers my own civilization hundreds of years after my death.

Amazing

[jgreco]

Walt Disney would be proud.

Re:Where are the pictures

[Anonymous Coward]

Surely they could have included a picture of the offending cups...

Then they'd have to pay too!

You think that is bad?

[gmuslera]

The real trouble happened when tried to put 2 Aztecs in 1 Cup. Associated a whole new twist to the taste of their coffee.

Re:Did the Aztec have a concept of copyright?

[JaredOfEuropa]

Acording to the aztec, their Tlatoani Ahuizotl, persoally killed 84,400 prisioners in four days using a stone knife...

For copyright violations? Harsh...