Angie McKaig - E-Business Consultant and Entrepreneur
So basically - unless you watermark your images, sayonara to your copyrights. And bye-bye to public photography because people have a right to privacy in public (wth?). I've read a LOT of copyright articles, bills, movements, charges, and lawsuits over the years. This little piece of UK law is, hands down, the most asinine and horrifying piece of copyright legislation I've ever read.
Just-a-guy does a cool thing with a corporate product, takes a photo of it, and the thing goes viral - Digg home page, the works. Then, corporation decides they want to use the image in a viral campaign of their own. Refuses to pay a $2k licensing fee to the original photographer, instead "recreates" their own for less, and then forgets about those darned Intertubes... they're so connected! Who knew they'd be found out? Classic corporate idiocy.
See what happens when you try to escape the tax man? The lawyers handling the MM estate successfully proved she's a New Yorker, not a Californian, in order to avoid CA taxes - except this now means that publicity rights no longer belong to her image - the estate can't collect fees any longer for her publicity shots. Interesting; I love it when lawyers get tangled in their own logic.
You already know - just by the title - that if you click through and read it you're going to be holding your head by the end, but it's like a traffic accident: you can't not look, can you? It's a good litlte rant on Techdirt about Eisner and his (apparent) love for fugging up the history of copyright by insisting that President Lincoln introduced a great deal of copyright into American history. Sigh.
A micropay method of image licensing - CPM basis licensing, or free with advertising. Interesting idea, if it catches on.
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