{"id":45,"date":"2007-12-26T21:20:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-12-26T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T04:20:58","slug":"egypt-to-copyright-pyramids-sphinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2007\/12\/26\/egypt-to-copyright-pyramids-sphinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to copyright pyramids, sphinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7160057.stm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44320000\/jpg\/_44320955_sphinx_203.jpg\" alt=\"sphinx\" align=\"left\" height=\"152\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"203\" \/><\/a>Sometimes truth is just as strange as fiction.  I&#8217;m working on a sequel to my story <em>Eris and the anomaly <\/em>which kicks off with the law firm of the Gods of Olympus sending me a takedown notice, claiming copyright on both the image of a golden apple and the term &#8220;kallisti&#8221;.  I was pretty pleased with my inventiveness coming up with such a wacky start to a farce; and then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/egypt\/story\/0,,2232254,00.html\">today in the Guardian&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country&#8217;s ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes truth is just as strange as fiction. I&#8217;m working on a sequel to my story Eris and the anomaly which kicks off with the law firm of the Gods of Olympus sending me a takedown notice, claiming copyright on both the image of a golden apple and the term &#8220;kallisti&#8221;. I was pretty pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}