Tag Archives: Civil Liberties

They really don’t like photographers do they

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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 … Continue reading →

Strange days indeed

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The end of the world must surely be coming, that or I’ve fallen into some odd alternate reality, for today we have: Tom Harris saying Daniel Hannan is right (which he is) and elsewhere Peter Tatchell is defending homophobes (well their right to free speech). All these attacks on our liberties and sovereignty do make for some strange alliances. +1-1

Viewscreens are coming

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This post is going to link to quite a few old articles as every time I’m about to write it something new adds to the pile of stuff that needs to be included. So it’s time I accepted the pace of things happening is just too fast and I should try to tie a few bits together knowing it’s all going to be out of date before I hit publish. The Government has a love hate relationship with the Internet, it loves the amount of data and control it could give over us but hates the fact that it allows … Continue reading →