A Photo Editor – UK Close To Approving Orphan Works
A must Read:
Several readers alerted me to The Digital Economy Bill (here) in the UK which contains Orphan Works language that “will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably diligent search.”
Photographer Simon Crofts has a post about it (here), where he says:
“The Government’s idea is to take control of licensing and pricing of orphan works away from copyright holders and give it instead to one or more central licensing bodies.”
Hopefully it can be stopped, but judging how things have been going for photographers over there it doesn’t appear the government cares much for photographers.
via A Photo Editor – UK Close To Approving Orphan Works.
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