I don't understand this - why would this have any effect on PD works?
It only affects those that are in copyright but the author is not
known, surely?
Mike
On 19 Mar 2010, at 01:32, Gnangarra wrote:
What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright
violations, minor
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=873803
This may become or present both benefits and problems to Commons in relation
to copyright on photographs from the UK. Be nice if some UK people or legal
people monitor and get an idea of possible issues in relation to permissions
as this
If anything we may gain from the orphan works clause. The BJP is
running a campaign against this as it thinks that photos without
metatags will be stolen.
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On 18 Mar 2010, at 14:34, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Caroline Ford
caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
If anything we may gain from the orphan works clause. The BJP is running a
campaign against this as it thinks that photos without metatags will be
stolen.
I don't think there will be much gain for Commons -
What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright
violations, minor issue but we'd have to delete them
The other is under due dilligence we could have request for checkuser
information to identify the IP of the uploader so that a person(corporate)
wanting to take ownership of a
