That fancy chair in your living room... err, you'll need a license to photograph it

[DuckDodgers]

 

Some mental institution of copyright abuses had just come with its latest brain fart idea of how to milk even more cash out of the thin air.
 

Changes to UK copyright law will soon mean that you may need to take out a licence to photograph classic designer objects even if you own them. That's the result of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, which extends the copyright of artistic objects like designer chairs from 25 years after they were first marketed, to 70 years after the creator's death. In most cases that will be well over a hundred years after the object was designed. During that period, taking a photo of the item will often require a licence from the copyright owner, regardless of who owns the particular object in question.

The UK government is holding a consultation into when this change should enter into force: after a six-month, three-year, or five-year transitional period. The Digital Reader quotes an article in The Bookseller that puts the starting date as October 2016, but without citing its source. In any case, the change is definitely coming, and quite soon.

As with the recent announcement that it is once again illegal to make private copies of music you own, it is unlikely that the public will pay much attention to this latest example of copyright being completely out of touch with how people actually use digital technology. But for professionals, the consequences will be serious, and not so easily ignored.

Photographers, for example, will need to worry about whether any of the objects in a picture they are taking are covered by copyright, in which case it may be necessary to obtain a licence to include them in the photo. Judging by its comments in the document accompanying the consultation on this issue, the UK government is not very sympathetic to the plight of photographers: "The Government considers that photographers and image libraries already bear costs for time and administration when assessing whether they need to obtain clearance when photographing other artistic works such as sculptures or paintings." In other words, tough.

Apparently, too many people out there make no difference between a tangible object and representations of a tangible object. How that became a copyright issue?

 

Source: http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/12/you-may-soon-need-a-licence-to-take-photos-of-that-classic-designer-chair-you-bought/

[ZetZet]

UK, copyright law.

 

 

Two tags that mean immediately ignore the article because it's retarded.

[noisebomb44]

I wonder who has the copyright on real life

[minibois]

I wonder when the time will come you will need to pay royals to breath oxygen

[Oshino Shinobu]

Our government is continuously making it very apparent just how out of touch they are in regards to technology and the internet. 

[DigitalHermit]

Yeah...

Much like how I can just go take a stroll in the local furniture shop and figure out the furniture so that I can build them later...

[Albatross]

I wonder when the time will come you will need to pay royals to breath oxygen

 

Soon.

[Alurit]

So if I own the rights to a designer chair, put it in the parlament and deny granting right to use, can i effectively make the parlament not available for public video broadcast while it is there?

[Sauron]

I wonder who has the copyright of real life

 

Better pay dem royalties to God whenever you post a selfie

[DigitalHermit]

So if I own the rights to a designer chair, put it in the parlament and deny granting right to use, can i effectively make the parlament not available for public video broadcast while it is there?

I'm sure parliament can pay off the licensing fees...

unless the licensing fee per minute of footage is the national annual budget...

[PlayStation 2]

Nest I'll have to pay money to look at the water

[Master Disaster]

COPYRIGHT - the clue is in the title.

 

You have to make an actual copy of the item, something that is functional and is a direct copy of the original. A picture is a representation, not a copy and therefore taking a picture is not breaching copyright.

 

The second this law makes it to court and is actually tested it will be repealed so fast it'll make the expansion of the universe look like entropy at absolute zero.

[Lethal Seraph]

Well this is just dumb. Are they so afraid of 3D printing they'll do shit like this?

[Miguel Batista]

Well this is just dumb. Are they so afraid of 3D printing they'll do shit like this?

I don't think they even considered 3D printing. Hurray for 5 more years of Cameron. Good show... Good show...

[sof006]

Another UK law that they have no way of enforcing. This will go nowhere very fast.

[AresKrieger]

I've being seeing more and more odd stories out of the UK, who the hell is writing these laws

 

[The Benjamins]

I am going to copyright the idea of life, if you are a living creature you owe me $0.01 per day you are alive. It is not a big royalty fee so you all should just pay up.

 

Pls no maths i swear I will not make much

[ZetZet]

Better pay dem royalties to God whenever you post a selfie

which one

[dalekphalm]

So if I own the rights to a designer chair, put it in the parliament and deny granting right to use, can i effectively make the parliament not available for public video broadcast while it is there?

I mean... sure... if for some reason they didn't just chuck your designer chair into the garbage? It's not like you can put it there without their permission or knowledge lol.

 

But in theory, if you somehow managed to get this hypothetical chair into parliament, and somehow convinced them to keep it there, then sure, I suppose you could extort them for copyright royalties.

 

But that's kind of ridiculous. The moment you say "Hey, you can't broadcast that video without paying because I own the copyright to that chair over there", they'll just be like "Okay then *picks up chair - chucks out window* what were you saying again?"

[Toddwjp]

Our government is continuously making it very apparent just how out of touch they are in regards to technology and the internet. 

 and pretty much everything else. 

[ivan134]

This fix is easy. Stop voting in right wingers.

[Swndlr]

Nest I'll have to pay money to look at the water

Kek

I feel like th UK is always putting dumb fucking copyrights on things they cant control, like that thing with the music and burning it to CD's and whatnot....

[jaggysnake57]

people bang on about the uk but....

 

if you look at it .....

 

well you have to think......

 

who the fuck am i trying to kid this is retarded.

[Sauron]

which one

 

your favourite

[Sauron]

This fix is easy. Stop voting in right wingers. idiots/demagogues/thieves

 

fixed ^^