Copyright

[Nihat Iyriboz]

UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now ? The Register

 

[Jim Kuo]

This is useful information, thanks for sharing this.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Wow, what a hard read that was.
Is there a dummy version of that?

 

[Andrew Cotterill]

I am now really quite angry.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

So what next?
Do we remove all photos we've every posted in the interweb? ,'/

 

[Beth Anthony]

post small sizes and place copyright notices on them, make sure your exif data isn't stripped and put your copyright info in there as well. your photos might not be registered, but if they're too small to be useable and have an ugly watermark notice on them the only people who will benefit from this are webmasters stealing photos for their websites.

i think i'm going to update my watermark to include my website address.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Erm, this sounds very bad ... Needs more reading ... Not good ...
you gotta love that coalition

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Your alright Beth, you have a fixed constitution(?), they can't do **** like this to you ... ... I don't think??? Not ad easily anyway ... I'm not so hot on politics, but I know your system makes it harder to do stuff like this ... I think ...?

I'm pretty sure Facebook and twitter strip metadata ... Effectively making any photo on there an orphan ... I think ... More reading to be done ... But if I understand this correctly, I'm really quite unhappy... It sorta feels as though I've had the rug pulled from under my feet a bit ...

 

[Andy Boardman]

Well it could be the end of great websites in this country then as name a PRO who wants there images and lively hood pinched by some large corporate company and used as they please,I will be watermarking my shots asap and this will make the shots less nickable but less attractive to look at to.

 

[Hamish Gill]

this makes for more comfortable reading BBC News - Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works'

 

[Lesley Jones]

I am now really quite angry.

I am more than quite angry and it's not doing my stress levels any good. People may want to take a look at this protest site Stop43.org.uk: Stop confiscation of your property and Human Rights in the UK Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

The globalization and reduced local communities created a craving of establishing new communities. And, the invention of new technologies helped creating these new communities without borders. I think that is very nice in some ways. I've had the chance of meeting with good distant friends like you. Yet, they say these networks are "free." Are they, really?!

This whole new lifestyle is also a double edged sword. The perception of being social through these networks does bring the increased level of isolation in our real worlds. Perhaps, this new lifestyle of ours is in the need of more personal study.

In the worst case scenario, there is always the authentic solution - Back to the darkroom and displaying framed work. That cannot be stolen digitally. In the end we decide. We are the lifeline. The content is us!

 

[Beth Anthony]

Your alright Beth, you have a fixed constitution(?), they can't do **** like this to you ... ... I don't think??? Not ad easily anyway ... I'm not so hot on politics, but I know your system makes it harder to do stuff like this ... I think ...?

that was my initial thought too. but what if someone from london takes my photos off of flickr legally? do i have any recourse?

 

[Dave Moss]

Epetition Here please share with ll photography sites

Stop Legalised Theft of Copyrighted Works - e-petitions

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

The site does not allow petitioners from the U.S. There are NO sovereign country borders in the digital realm, are there...

 

[Dave Moss]

that was my initial thought too. but what if someone from london takes my photos off of flickr legally? do i have any recourse?

This has been pointed out by Flickr that all photo's here have the owners id AND it is possible to contact the owner through Flickr so these are not orphaned works so it would be possible to claim copyright theft they do put the disclaimer in that if the account is deleted then it would make the photo orphaned

 

[Jim Kuo]

Epetition Here please share with ll photography sites

Stop Legalised Theft of Copyrighted Works - e-petitions

Thanks for sharing this, petition signed. Link also shared on my fb page.