All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England

An anonymous reader writes "English Heritage, the organization that runs and manages various historical sites in the UK, such as Stonehenge, has apparently sent letters to various photo sharing and stock photo sites claiming that any photo of Stonehenge that is being sold violates its rights, and only English Heritage can get commercial benefit from such photos. In fact, they're asking for all money made from such photos, stating: 'all commercial interest to sell images must be directed to English Heritage.' As one recipient noted, this seems odd, given that English Heritage has only managed Stonehenge 'for 27 of the monument's 4,500 year old history.'"

Comments

First Henge

[Anonymous Coward]

Brought to you by the aliens who built it.

Re:First Henge

[icannotthinkofaname]

And they built it for good reason, too. Have you seen what they put under that place-marker? There's a prison whose sole purpose is to absolutely contain the most feared creature in the universe.

Er, so said the British TV show, anyway.

Carhenge

[tag]

Fine. I'll use pictures of Carhenge instead.

Re:Carhenge

[dominious]

there exists a Carhenge?! I can see this 1000 years later:

tourist 1: hmm, they must have been using this wheel to calculate the time of sunrise or something...
tourist 2: indeed, amazing technology they had. I wonder what these numbers show in front of the "main" seat. Must be some kind of a galactic compass!
tourist 1: woah...

Re:Carhenge

[Abstrackt]

It's like a car analogy.

A disguised way to sue Microsoft?

[Dogbertius]

C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\Stonehenge.jpg

Need I say more?

This is Spinal Tap

[Lord_of_the_nerf]

I suppose they'll want a percentage from sales of Smell the Glove too.

4500 years?

[T Murphy]

How did they manage to build it by 2500 BC? I usually don't manage to finish it until 2000BC... they must have had a nearby source of marble I wasn't aware of.

Good Reply To The Letters.....

[IHC Navistar]

Dear Sir/Madam, We will gladly remove the photographs of Stonehenge that you have asked us to remove. However, we require that you provide us with written, notarized documentation detailing: 1. Ownership or controlling interest in Stonehenge by your organization, 2. Transfer of ownership to your organization by the original creator(s) of the work, and, 3. That the work was, in fact, created by those that transferred ownership to your organization. Additionally, we would like to take this letter as an opportunity to inform you that we have awarded your organization with lifetime membership in our "Good Luck With That" club, which is an exclusive organization of groups displaying exceptional confidence in their legal endeavors. Sincerely, Howard, Fine, and Howard Attorneys-At-Law

Re:We win, we lose

[SirGarlon]

Assuming that people cannot become more stupid, but the rules can become more stupid

That is a wildly optimistic assumption. Both people and rules have repeatedly demonstrated an unlimited potential for stupidity. There is no reason to think either have bottomed out yet.