The government is currently trying to rush through two pieces of legislation that will have a massive impact on the rights of photographers and other content creators, journalists, street and documentary photographers, and potentially in the not too distant future anyone who takes a photo in public.
http://www.copyrightaction.com/forum/uk-gov-nationalises-orphans-and-bans-non-consensual-photography-in-publicThe first issue will potentially strip photographers of the rights to their work under certain circumstances.
The second will have potential consequences that could result in what certain official groups have attempted with anti-terror legislation - the wide-scale curtailing of photography in public places. At the moment, if it goes through, the bill will only apply to professional photographers, however it wouldn't take much to trickle down to include amateurs who are the main victims of misapplication of current anti-terror legislation.
I find both bills to be quite draconian in nature, with the ICO code potentially stripping the rights of press photographers from doing their job (how will they get permission from 10,000 participants when reporting a public protest?).
What do you think?
