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Comment - Sarang, that's one hell of an extension of freedom of panorama: by that measure, as long as I get slightly more than the subject in question in, I could photograph any item at all (say, every page of a book, as long as I get a bit of the desk underneath in) and claim copyright on a zoomed-in version of the page. This would render copyright null and void practically everywhere with FoP rules. That seems something very unlikely to stand up in court! Trey Maturin (talk) 20:41, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hm. Normally... those clauses usually say something to the effect that a use in this situation can not affect the normal exploitation of the original work -- so if we are basically making a copy of the original photograph, then it is used for the exact same purpose (as opposed to showing it in its public context), and would therefore not be OK. Commons:Freedom of panorama#Further_derivative_works alludes to this. Sort of like for a de minimis work -- that photo may be OK, but a crop which focuses on the part which was de minimis before would no longer be OK. However, I do not see that clause exactly in the German law (though it may be in other articles of the law I'm missing). It still feels to me like it would be a problem, since there is really no derivative work any more -- the crop in question is basically a direct copy of the original poster, with the copyright status of the photograph of it now being irrelevant. The FoP situation does mean this is not a slam-dunk violation, but usually this type of use of a FoP photo is a problem. I'm just not as sure on the exact situation in Germany. Carl Lindberg (talk) 21:31, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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