The original of this article is over on Copyright Action, but they seem to be having bandwidth issues so I reproduce it in it’s entirety here. (reproduced with permission and all copyright and content remains © Copyright Action 2008 – 2009).
When you’ve finished reading this consider a few things:
1) The police are generally unhappy at being photographed
2) How likely is it that the ICO provisions won’t be extended to all photographers after a suitable pause?
3) If we have our photographic copyrights removed today, what protects any of our other creative rights?
4) How much luck do you think you’ll have proving a picture was yours when trying to get the fees out of the Government?
If you’ve not done so already write to your MP it may not do any good but there is an election coming so they might listen for a change.
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public
The Digital Economy Bill : what’s yours is ours
The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which – unless amended, which HMG says it will not – will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
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