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 Post subject: UK's "Instagram Act"
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:30 am 
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Surprised no has posted a link to this yet. Excerpt from the article:
For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work - the user only needs to perform a "diligent search". But since this is likely to come up with a blank, they can proceed with impunity. The Act states that a user of a work can act as if they are the owner of the work (which should be you) if they're given permission to do so by the Secretary of State.

I guess we'll be seeing corporations in the UK doing the following in the future:
a - find image you want to use at site X
b - have someone strip the the image of identifying information and repost it at site Y
c - discover image at site Y lacking traceable information
d - do "due dilligence" based on image from site Y
e - declare image from site Y as 'orphaned'
f - PROFIT

The problem with step d is the amount of wiggle room. It's going to come down the best lawyers along with the whimsical decisions of judges.

Personally, I'm not a fan of watermarks, but I may have to revisit my position.


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 Post subject: Re: UK's "Instagram Act"
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:45 pm 
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Wow, that's ignorant. Watermarks will have be in every image.


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