Sri Lankan Intellectual Property Act with amendments up to 2000, Article 13(d) limits reproducing copyrighted artworks and buildings placed permanently at public places or visible from there without the rights holder's consent to film and TV broadcasts only.

The current law is the Code of Intellectual Property Act 36 of 2003, which in "Chapter I: Copyright" introduced U.S.-style "fair use" and dropped any direct reference to anything resembling "freedom of panorama" at all. 

Therefore, we are unable to photograph public places such as worship places, government buildings and some historic places in order to use in documentary purposes. It control us to photograph such places and upload valuable locations such as Wikipedia/Wikimedia. Therefore, we are limited by information that supported by images. Eg: Close view of Colombo Lotus Tower cannot use in Wikimedia Commons and some recently made public sculptures from worship places.