It's an interesting situation. As Stan says, thinking about who wins is quite an enlightening exercise. Who would want a law like this? Somebody must do, otherwise we wouldn't be getting it, so what do they stand to gain?
So if, say, an unscrupulous international picture agency simply starting trawling and downloading photos and making money from them, and you as a photographer happened to find out about it, what can you do? The burden of proof is on you to show that they have not undertaken an adequate search for the copyright holder. Chances are they would just settle with you for whatever they earned from the pictures, and refrain from using them again. The only thing that might prevent said megacorp would possibly be the threat of a class action suit from a large group of photographers. B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P.J. Alling > Sent: 02 May 2013 16:19 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT Is The UK Government Trying To Kill Off Photographers > > Even large corporations couldn't be happy with this, download > a copyrighted work with full information imbedded, upload to > face book, download it again and it's laundered. The only > protected works are those so well known that their provenance > is indisputable. > > On 5/2/2013 8:52 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > Interesting. The breathless hysteria of the blog was a bit > off-putting, but he did seem to make a few good points. He > focused on who loses under the legislation discussed (i.e., > those who expect to be paid for their photographs but > nonetheless distribute their work via social media). The more > pertinent question might be who gains? It seems that Murdoch > and his ilk must be be overjoyed that they will receive an > open invitation to piracy. Instead of blathering about "The > Government" and "The Act" as though these abstractions were > living breathing people, he should be thinking about the > legislators and their corporate partners. > > > > stan > > > > On May 2, 2013, at 1:34 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: > > > >> > http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2013/04/29/is-the-uk-government-trying- > >> to-kill-of-photographers/ > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> -- > >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > >> > > > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've > experienced a hard drive failure, and those that will. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
