There is a temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, which like many tourist locations, where many people take the exact same photo. So much so, that I have at least six friends on Facebook, most of whom don't know each other, who have posted the same photo, with roughly the same cropping. This is also a shot, or at least the composition, which has featured many times in advertisements and books.<p>I can see the same shot, or roughly similar composition, for city skylines or buildings many times with only slight variations. As an amateur photographer who licenses photos, some of my best revenue photos are of these locations.<p>If anyone wants to come and sue me for copyright infringement for a photo of the skyline of Hong Kong, I'd likely create a new site with my infringing photos and ask for more licensing revenue to help pay to defeat the troll.
> <i>One might have hoped that Plaintiff - an artist - would have understood as much, or that her attorneys, presumably familiar with the basic tenets of copyright and intellectual property law, would have recognized the futility of this action before embarking on a long, costly, and ultimately wasteful course of litigation in a court of law.</i>