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IIRC it's that the lights are a nightly "performance". Absurd, of course.

Why absurd? they are performance that just happen to be occurring frequently. If a Broadway musical is played every night, does it stop being a musical?

The question is, Does a recording of it stop being private property if it's performed in public?

Says the company running the tower...

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