Photographers rue Mandy's copyright landgrab

Collection Agencies

don't work like that. My work is published in magazines and books all over the world too and I collect money directly. DACS collects money based on those images being copied in libraries and the like from those books and magazines. It's generally a healthy sum.

In which case...

why are you even Commenting here?

It's about commercial photography.

well

It becomes ever more obvious that we don't need a change of party in control of the government - we need a change in *system* of government here in the UK.

Ours is broken, due to a total lack of transparency curruption has changed our government from serving the people to serving those with the biggest wallets for the express purpose of filling those wallets even further.

If the government aren't careful, I predict full on rioting and rebellion in the next 5 to 10 years. There's an awful lot of people becoming more and more angry.

LibDems

Before voting for them you might want to know about the LibDem's Lord Clement-Jones.

He's busy in the Lords on the Digital Economy Bill and proposed a change which would do good business for lawyers specialising in intellectual property disputes. Essentially he wants a judge to hear any dispute over copyright material that is found on a site, and if the judge rules there's been a dispute, he can order the page or indeed the whole site taken down. No bad? Well think how many copyright disputes there could be over a site like YouTube. You couldn't probably find enough lawyers to represent all the breaches on YouTube alone.

Lord Clement Jones' list of interests includes:

*12(b) Parliamentary lobbying

Partner of DLA Piper (international law firm) and adviser to its global government relations practice.

The member is paid £70,000 in respect of his services as Co-Chairman of DLA Piper’s global government relations practice

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg/reg06.htm (you'll need to scroll down a bit).

And who are DLA Piper I hear you ask?

'DLA Piper's Intellectual Property and Technology practice is one of the largest groups of IP lawyers in the world...

'When disputes arise, your commercial objectives are our main concern. Whether you turn to litigation, engage in arbitration or mediation, or employ some other innovative solution to the problem, our IP and Technology group will represent and support you at every stage. '

http://www.dlapiper.com/global/services/detail.aspx?service=53

You'd almost think he was being paid to drum up business for them. Which, when you think about it, he is.

U.K.

The UK is a monarchy. The powers of the monarch, except from the constitutional decisions, are delegated to the Privy Council, a totally secret body which is controlled by the Prime Minister.

It is H.M.G. Not your government and not mine but Lizzie's.

We are officially serfs with some basic rights. So touch your forelock and do as you are told by those in authority.

Actually

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Not Licensed for UK Use until XXX is revoked

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That's a BLOODY GOOD IDEA! :)

Way to go!

You've just reduced the internet to a shopping channel.

Even the wikifiddlers expect that they'll get credit, as do the OSS.

Best idea I've heard all week.

"Any MP3s and AVIs which happen to be on websites or other distribution channels which are NOT those of the original publisher or authorised vendor should now be reclassified as "orphaned works" and are thus free for download and use."

Even those original vendor files with an artist/publisher's identity in the filename should be free game after a quick scrub of the metadata, just like Murdoch will have his elves doing to any digital images they acquire.

"The Government and their Corporate Sponsors"

I prefer "The Cult of the Quarterly Bonus." :D