Do not take photographs of the Atomium. Even if they are for your own personal use. Asbl Atomium claims to manage the copyright on all photos of this building around the world and will have an agency threaten you with legal action if your display them.
Even if they are just your holiday or vacation pictures, you will still be threatened.
Even if they are for educational use, you will still be threatened.
Even if you are an American and think you are protected by U.S. copyright law Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 120, you will still be threatened.
T his is exactly what Brussels needed -- a unifying symbol of its presence in the world community. The Atomium is more than just an oversized abstract sculpture. For a city that sees itself as Paris 2.0, this is Brussels' Eiffel Tower. Something large, geometric, and symbolic. And like the Eiffel Tower this, too, is a relic from a past World's Fair. The Atomium is an iron molecule magnified 165,000,000,000 times and turned into a huge building. Inside there are restaurants, shops, museums and an observation deck. Each of its nine spheres are sixty feet across. The connecting tubes are 10-feet wide, and the overall height of the atom is 335 feet. Getting from one pod to another is a simple process of playing connect the dots by climbing or descending staircases through the tubes.
aluxeterna
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 @ 10:57am
Rating: One star. Great Building, but the management gets huge negative points for their chilling anti-free-speech tactics. Disgusting, really. Great site, by the way! Lots of great resources!
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