Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works'

Note that this law was passed in the UK, but it might inspire politicians in the US to pass similar legislation.

This is a very dangerous law.

One will believe that now with digital cameras, everybody will took their own photos before taking someone's else. But not.

This is very serious, Big companies will use the web services in other countries like China or Russia to automatically remove copyright info from pictures or text and post them. Then you can just take those documents legally "as there is no copyright metadata" in the picture.

New legislation is making Big companies benefit and small ones to be crushed by them.

If you are from UK, it is time to do something.

Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ? Does it mean that if someone steal my photo without permission and removed copyright information, other people can just use download it from there and legally use it however they want because they cannot contact me?

How about a national db of photos that's free for artists to register low res works on. If someone wants to publish with media they don't have a license for you're required to do an image matching search. If you get a match you pay a buck for the contact info of the artist and have to get a license. If the artist finds you used it without paying them a licensing fee and it's registered you pay a fine based on what you made off the usage. So a newspaper maybe has to pay 10% of revenues for the day they ran the image on the front page. I honestly don't know what kind of penalty is appropriate here, but obviously it should be more than can be absorbed as the 'cost of business'.

It's stealing if you infringe my copyright. It's sharing if I infringe someone else's.