Changes to copyright laws - make sure you watermark your pics!
Pretty lazy reporting by the Beeb, it regurgitates an article on The Register from yesterday and is tucked away in the Technology section for some reason.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22337406
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/
It raises an interesting question about how much contact info to reveal though, I'm not sure I would want to give too much away but at the same time I don't want my pics reused!
Steve
It doesn't have anything to do with the price of strawberries but am I the only one wondering whether there is absolutely nothing that is not up for commercial exploitation these days and that we are all collectively sleep-walking right into it? I mean, you name it and it is up for grabs, giving an opportunity for already rich people to become even richer. Maybe I am just paranoid but I like to think myself typically pretty resistant to that sort of thing. I don't for example, have much truck with the more outlandish conspiracy theorists. However, I just get the feeling that there is this constant drive for what is a figurative 'land-grab'.
Any passing resemblance between me and a walrus is purely coincidental and the walrus has told me he will sue! ☺
INHO if you post a pic online it's no longer yours anymore! If you do a good watermark it usually ruins the photo so why bother?
Play nice...... Play Naked!
unfortunately with this new piece of crap it means the only way to put any pic online, anywhere is to watermark heavily unless you are happy with all and sundry using it for whatever they like, even selling it.
the law places a requirement for users to try to find the owner but it looks impossible to police.
Basically they have just legalised (copyright) theft