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I'm not sure how I happened upon this, so I apologise if someone has posted elsewhere:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29 ... _landgrab/

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act

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In practice, you'll have two stark choices to prevent being ripped off: remove your work from the internet entirely, or opt-out by registering it. And registration will be on a work-by-work basis.

"People can now use stuff without your permission," explained photo rights campaigner Paul Ellis. "To stop that you have to register your work in a registry - but registering stuff is an activity that costs you time and money. So what was your property by default will only remain yours if you take active steps, and absorb the costs, if it is formally registered to you as the owner."

How the ... did that happen?

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I don't think it's been posted hereabouts yet, but it's been all over Google+.

I think we're all too stunned to say anything, frankly. :(

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Been all over Fb too.
Gotta gather my thoughts before I air them.
I've still got things to say about when Instagram went a bit mental with it's rights handling before it did a u-turn.
Might wait for the dust to settle a bit first.

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Who benefits most?

The photographer?

Corporations?

The Copyright office (government) through registrations fees?

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Who benefits most?

The unscrupulous who take advantage by claiming to have searched when actually they are lying.

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I'm not a photographer. But this wound me up more than the police/photographer/terrorist thing.

How do you identify what's yours? Metadata can help unless it gets stripped out (easy to do). Watermarking isn't something that's widely done or available, especially on apps.

I was sorely tempted to take a pic of one of David Cameron's kids then plaster it everywhere as an endorsement of a product. Could then say I found it on the net, it didn't have any identifiable data, I tried to do a reverse image search, made reasonable attempts and decided I'd use it. That's the kind of thing it would take.

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I was sorely tempted to take a pic of one of David Cameron's kids then plaster it everywhere as an endorsement of a product. Could then say I found it on the net, it didn't have any identifiable data, I tried to do a reverse image search, made reasonable attempts and decided I'd use it. That's the kind of thing it would take.

I suspect you're not the only person thinking of something along those lines.


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