India Angry Over Fake Taj Mahal

[Will E Worm]

The Indian embassy in Bangladesh has voiced its displeasure over the exact copy - and is hoping to sue for copyright infringement.

A spokesman at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka fumed: "You can't just go and copy historical monuments.

"Someone will go out there and have a look. The reports we are reading say it is an exact replica."

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"You can't just go and copy historical monuments."

Yes, you can. :hatsoff:

 

[tdomaster]

nice article! have some rep for that

 

[belgianass]

Not that i care much what they did over there, but in a way they are right. You don't copy it, even if it is a building or not. Think about your national inheritage, then imagine people who do all kinds of bad things in and on it, would you still like it. It's perhaps easy to say that you don't mind that somebody else is doing that to somebody else, but suppose it was yours. Would you still like the idea then ? No, not me ... It can be that his purpose was right, many of bangladesh can't go there to see it, but do you actually think they wanna see it . I don't even think so ...

 

[knowone]

Article says "exact replica" but clearly it's about 1/3-1/4 scale.

 

[Spunner]

Oh no! India will be on the warpath! :rofl:

 

[Petra]

Good grief....next thing you know the UK will be sueing Maryhill, WA because of the replica of the Stonehenge.

 

[Will E Worm]

"You can't just go and copy historical monuments."

Yes, you can. :hatsoff:

There are replicas of the Eiffel Tower everywhere.

Also, in Texas there's a replica of the Forbidden City.

Forbidden Gardens

Texas' Little-Known 'Forbidden City'

 

[AFA]

Very weird and from the photos, that's not even close to the size or shape of the real Taj Mahal. The writer of that National Enquirer type article must be an idiot.

(There's also Spendid China in Orlando http://orlando.about.com/cs/themeparks/a/spchina.htm )

 

[D-rock]

That's almost as sad as Egypt thinking it can sue people over making pyramids.