[rollei_list] OT: Proposed UK "orphan works" bill affects us all.
- From: sanders@xxxxxxxxx
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:30:29 -0700
Copyrightaction.com reports of two proposed
revisions to UK law, that may have a palpable
effect on all of us. The first is an expansive new
rule that will permit the use of "orphan works,"
i.e., photographs whose copyright ownership
cannot be discerned, contained in the "Digital
Economy Bill," expected to pass in the next
month or so.
consequences, as it appears to enable UK publishers
to make use of any photograph they find online, the
provenance of which is claimed to be indeterminate.
The RPS have issued a statement in opposition:
All of us posting images online, wherever we are located,
stand to have our photographs appropriated without
attribution or compensation under this law, with the
burden shifted to us to prove (at our own expense) our
copyright in the images.
The second proposed change in UK law, also reported
in the same article (but regarding a separate law) is a
new rule that will ban "professional" photographers from
publishing photographs made in public, without the consent
of all of the identifiable people who appear in it, in the
name of protecting their privacy interests.
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