Church of England considers legal action against Sony

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ssj12 said:

FishyJoe said:

Gballzack said:
If the contents of the church's interior are considered public domain in that they are no secret, then arguable using them in a production shouldn't be illegal, at least not by US laws.

Just because you allow guests onto your property does not make it public domain. You can't go into a building and publish photographs of the inside without the owners permission.

 why you havent been banned beyond me, you post nothing but negative towards sony products. 

Is it illegal to find the old version of the church ie 1954 look and recreate it. The copyright if there is one cant legal stand that long. The outside shell shouldnt be able to be argued against if so GTA4 is screwed since they recreated all of New York and they didnt ask permission. Even if they call each place a different name they are using the exact building structure for each building.  

It has nothing to do with a copyright and everything to do with respecting private property.  Obviously Sony asked them if they could use the church and based on this lawsuit the church obviously said no.  So why didn't Sony just use a pretend church?