Please all sign this petition against proposed UK government plans to amend copyright protection for photographers. This could enable anyone to use your images without paying you a penny if there is no IPTC metadata embedded in the file. You can read more about the issue in these articles from the British Journal of Photographers:
UK Government to tackle Orphan Works
Government unveils plans to reshape UK’s copyright law
Here is the petition to sign:
Petition to: Abandon plans to amend copyright protection for photographers.
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
I am against the proposed changing of the present copyright protection
for photographers.
Having read the proposed changes to the existing copyright law, I am against them.
Making photographic images costs me both time and money. I have spent years acquiring the necessary skills to make successful images. I consider the images to be my property and cannot agree that they should be taken – STOLEN – without my permission or appropriate recompense. I am totally opposed to the proposed bill.