The Belgians have been competing with the French throughout their history, as well as the French with the Belgians.
It became somehow insulting and envious of Brussels that there is such a famous tower in Paris and they decided not to lag behind and even get ahead.
Repeating the history of the famous Parisian tower, the Belgians, like the French once, decided to hold the World Exhibition in 1958. Well, to build something for this exhibition to be remembered by everyone and forever.
And so the Atomium was born. 102 meters high and over 2400 tons in weight. This statue is a cubic fragment of the crystal lattice of iron, enlarged 165 billion times.
And as if everything is fine, the Atomium really became both a symbol of Brussels and one of its main attractions, but the Belgians behaved somehow strangely. They claimed copyright on the image of this miracle.
As a result, images of the Atomium were taken from a number of American sites, they are not taken by sites that sell photographs, and even the Wikipedia article has only a photograph of the layout of this monster. This is some kind of nonsense. Everyone takes pictures of this attraction, the Internet is full of these pictures, however, the copyright for the image belongs to the Belgian company. I think it was a misguided marketing move.
I would like to hope that the Belgians will not make claims against TURPRAVDA for publishing images of Atomium on their website : )
It became somehow insulting and envious of Brussels that there is such a famous tower in Paris and they decided not to lag behind and even get ahead.
Repeating the history of the famous Parisian tower, the Belgians, like the French once, decided to hold the World Exhibition in 1958. Well, to build something for this exhibition to be remembered by everyone and forever.
And so the Atomium was born. 102 meters high and over 2400 tons in weight. This statue is a cubic fragment of the crystal lattice of iron, enlarged 165 billion times.
And as if everything is fine, the Atomium really became both a symbol of Brussels and one of its main attractions, but the Belgians behaved somehow strangely. They claimed copyright on the image of this miracle.
As a result, images of the Atomium were taken from a number of American sites, they are not taken by sites that sell photographs, and even the Wikipedia article has only a photograph of the layout of this monster. This is some kind of nonsense. Everyone takes pictures of this attraction, the Internet is full of these pictures, however, the copyright for the image belongs to the Belgian company. I think it was a misguided marketing move.
I would like to hope that the Belgians will not make claims against TURPRAVDA for publishing images of Atomium on their website : )
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