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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?"

3 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The shame of it is, someone who didn't bother to read the article is going to mark you informative for that revealing tidbit of information...

  2. Re:Copyright or "cultural heritage"? by Jeff+Carr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is fantastic news! We can start charging people for incompetence then! We're going to be rich.

    And no, I don't mean we, the United States, I mean we, as in Slashdot and it's editors!

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    The television will not be revolutionized.
  3. Re:Actually by nystire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Bono reads this, I'm pretty sure he will mark it as 'Insightful'.