Today (Jan 18th) sees what is being billed as ‘the largest internet protest in history’ as websites show their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sibling the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US.
There’s a lot to be concerned about the Digital Economy Bill that is being pushed through the law-making process with unseemly haste.
In response, an activist website has sprung up making it easy for the public to contact their MPs and ask them to consider the controversial bill more carefully.
There’s been growing outrage and concern from UK photographers over increasingly Draconian, illegal – and plain daft – clampdowns on their right to take photos in a public place.
Police officers, security guards and general jobsworths have been using terrorism laws to harass photographers, sparking several public protests in London.
Fed up with increasing hassle from the feds, plastic cops and security jobsworths, UK snappers are gathering at Trafalgar Square at noon on Saturday 23rd January as part of the I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! campaign.
The campaign aims to defend the rights of professional and amateur photographers and stop the abuse of the terror laws which have resulted in some quite bonkers arrests.
Newly proposed government legislation designed to deal with ‘orphan files’ will leave non-commercial websites free to use a photographer’s images without permission, payment or even credit,
The Digital Economy Bill includes changes to the copyright system and is charged with ‘providing essential support for creative industries in a digital world, through proposals on online copyright infringement and changes to copyright licensing.’
In effect, this will allow free and unhindered reproduction of photographs without payment or credit on non-commercial websites.
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