@ www.madcowmodels.co.uk/forum/thread/6070/selling-images-online.html
www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/
From the article: "The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes."
Would a watermark be sufficient to keep an image from being an orphaned work then? This matters regardless of whether one sells images online.
www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/
From the article: "The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes."
Would a watermark be sufficient to keep an image from being an orphaned work then? This matters regardless of whether one sells images online.
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