Luxembourg
Luxembourg has no freedom of panorama: only incidental inclusion of copyrighted works is allowed, so selling images of modern architecture as the subject needs the rights holder's permission.
Guidance, not legal advice
Drone Authority
Check the flight side
Photography access and drone permission are separate questions. Drone Authority covers the flight-law side for this country.
Permit
Conditional
Issuer: Municipality (Ville de Luxembourg) or site manager for commercial productions; no permit for personal street photography
Cost: No permit for personal photography; commercial crews need location clearances
Personal photography needs no permit. Commercial productions coordinate with the city and Film Fund Luxembourg; managed sites such as the Bock Casemates set their own conditions.
Drone / airspace
Governed by EU EASA rules via the Direction de l'Aviation Civile; register as a UAS operator under the Open or Specific category, with tight geography (city no-fly areas, Findel airport) in a small airspace
For category detail, see Drone Authority.
Street / public space
Yes to photograph; GDPR and the right to one's image apply to publishing identifiable people
Personal-use shooting falls under the GDPR household exemption. Publishing a recognizable person without consent, particularly commercially, generally needs consent, with public-figure and news exceptions.
Freedom of panorama
No (incidental inclusion only)
The Law of 18 April 2001 on Copyright, as amended in 2015, contains no panorama exception; only incidental inclusion of a protected work in an image is allowed. Selling images whose subject is a copyrighted building or artwork (e.g. the Philharmonie or MUDAM on Kirchberg) requires permission. The UNESCO-listed old town and fortifications are out of copyright.
Practical notes
- The Grund, Adolphe Bridge, and old-town panoramas raise no copyright issue; the FoP gap bites on Kirchberg's modern architecture and contemporary public art.
- The Chemin de la Corniche is the marquee viewpoint and is unrestricted.
- EU institution buildings on Kirchberg have security staff attentive to close-up photography of entrances and infrastructure.
Sources
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