Comment on UK Legislation for Orphan Works by Elandria
Yep, essentially they are kinda saying, "all the interwebs belongs to us now" The US photography community have already threatened legal action etc if this goes ahead.
Its ultimately people in an office somewhere trying to find ways to tap the internet to make money for the government without actually understanding any of the fundamentals of pre existing copyright laws, moral rights and the Berne Convention. How these people actually run our country is beyond me.
Its ultimately people in an office somewhere trying to find ways to tap the internet to make money for the government without actually understanding any of the fundamentals of pre existing copyright laws, moral rights and the Berne Convention. How these people actually run our country is beyond me.
This is coming from the Government that when told that people in Social Housing will be evicted due to the Bedroom tax, that they can rent out their counsel-owned property. Unaware that this is classed as 'subletting' and illegal.
The same government, who's idea of a "Back to work" program was ruled to be 'Legalized Slavery' by the courts.
The same government who's grasp on statistics is lambasted hours later after any publication. "800'000 'fit for work' claiming sick pay", the DWP Adviser declared then said he could live off £17 a week.
The European Union refuses to deal with this government, grant any concession or even talk to the PM as David Cameron was quoted by Merkel "Yesterday's Man." I Just want to Highlight how backwards the government is, it's level of incompetence and detachment from reality is absurd and chilling. This is a Government that *Does not know it's own legal system*.
The same government, who's idea of a "Back to work" program was ruled to be 'Legalized Slavery' by the courts.
The same government who's grasp on statistics is lambasted hours later after any publication. "800'000 'fit for work' claiming sick pay", the DWP Adviser declared then said he could live off £17 a week.
The European Union refuses to deal with this government, grant any concession or even talk to the PM as David Cameron was quoted by Merkel "Yesterday's Man." I Just want to Highlight how backwards the government is, it's level of incompetence and detachment from reality is absurd and chilling. This is a Government that *Does not know it's own legal system*.
Thats them! 
But surely it can't possible go through, right? Or rather, it shouldn't be possible to get a law that directly conflicts with such basic things and pre existing laws. I can imagine that there are plenty of organizations etc that will be ready to take legal actions. It's just such a stupid thing to do that it amazes me. Because really, even watermarks and signatures are deleted from photos on daily basis by others than the copyright holder him/herself. Does that turn them infor "free photos" according to that soon-to-be law?:/
Well, I'll at least try to spread the word around and see if there are some UK citizens that might be able to sign it.
Well, I'll at least try to spread the word around and see if there are some UK citizens that might be able to sign it.
Yep, its complete nonsense, and shouldn't have ever got this far. You are right, Facebook strips off any metadata attached to images posted to the site - creating hundreds of thousands of "orphans" every day, and any image thats been "borrowed" and posted on another website with no contact details of the creator is an "orphan" as well - even though the artist/photographer/creator is very much alive, and their work very much copyrighted.