UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
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Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#2Insanity.
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#3Yet again I am ashamed of my government.
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#4This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#5This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
It'll end up being enforced on publication, I'd guess. So if you photograph an object and publish the picture, someone can come after you for money. Or, in this case, if you published a book last year, they can sue you for distributing it. Which is insane, but that's what you get with retroactive copyright extensions.
Nobody actually cares whether you took the photograph, it's whether you published it.
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#6This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
It'll end up being enforced on publication, I'd guess. So if you photograph an object and publish the picture, someone can come after you for money. Or, in this case, if you published a book last year, they can sue you for distributing it. Which is insane, but that's what you get with retroactive copyright extensions. Nobody actually cares whether you took the photograph, it's whether you published it.
perfect for celebrities
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#7This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
It'll end up being enforced on publication, I'd guess. So if you photograph an object and publish the picture, someone can come after you for money. Or, in this case, if you published a book last year, they can sue you for distributing it. Which is insane, but that's what you get with retroactive copyright extensions. Nobody actually cares whether you took the photograph, it's whether you published it.
Well the question is then does it cover all photographs or only those in which the item is the subject.
E.g model on a chair is ok chair on its own is not.
Also what makes an item a classical designer item? Do ikea chairs count as designer goods now since they come with an image stock photo of some middle age white guy with a Nordic name?
Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#8A lot of technologists here have certain dreams or aspirations they want to see materialized in their lifetimes. AGI, transhumanism, space colonization, etc.
My dream is that I hope to see the emergence of a viable minarchist or anarchist society (beyond Mennonite and kibbutzim arrangements). Thus far the closest was a brief period of Catalonian history amidst a civil war.
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Re: UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
#10A lot of technologists here have certain dreams or aspirations they want to see materialized in their lifetimes. AGI, transhumanism, space colonization, etc. My dream is that I hope to see the emergence of a viable minarchist or anarchist society (beyond Mennonite and kibbutzim arrangements). Thus far the closest was a brief period of Catalonian history amidst a civil war.
Communists and anarchists talking about the new utopian society before winning the war. I wonder why they lose...