UK IP Rights - The Gower Review
Every photographer should know about this: the most wide ranging review into UK intellectual property for nearly 20 years has failed to recommend key changes proposed by photographer groups, while it advocates a UK equivalent to the controversial US “orphan works” bill.
As a photographer, when you take a photograph you own the copyright to that image until well after you die. While you own the copyright to it, you have a lot of control over if a photo is used, how a photograph is used, by whom a photograph is used.
At Fotolia, when you sell a copy of your photograph, you keep the copyright - and the buyer is buying the right to use that photograph according to a set of rules in the Agreement.
But what if your photos could be used by anybody? Without you being paid? Where does that leave you?
You need to be aware of the Gower Review and how it can affect all photographers - and a photographer's ability to earn a living from stock photography.
Check it out here:
The Gower Review
and keep an eye on how this is progressing!
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