I believe there is a push for a major overhaul of UK copyright law, mainly to correct anomalies which have been recently introduced.
On 23/06/2011 21:25, geni wrote: > On 23 June 2011 21:05, Andy Mabbett<[email protected]> wrote: >> With respect, no. We need to persuade our legislators to change >> copyright law so this doesn't happen. > Best we can tell goverments love copyright consultations but don't > seem to be interested actual changes to the law rather than > enforcement. > >> But then, if that happens, what incentive will there be for >> institutions to take and document such images? > I find it hard to believe that money is really much of a motivator at > this point. I really doubt there is much of a market for this stuff. A > lot of it is pretty meh 18th and early 19th century stuff and even the > stuff in areas I know well I haven't seen before which means people > aren't out there buying it. > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
