UK residents may need a license to photograph their own thing




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In accordance with the amendments to the copyright law of Great Britain, the owners of designer items вскоре will have to obtain a license , to take pictures, even those objects that belong to themselves. These amendments have already been adopted, and now обсуждается Only the term their entry into force.

This incident is related to the fact that things like exclusive designer furniture and other items protected by copyright. The amendments made to the law back in 2013, changing the term of the copyright, if he had previously lasted for 25 years from the date of manufacture of the object, now it lasts already 70 years after the author's death. It turns out that the typical duration of copyright will receive a hundred years or even more. It is unknown when the law begins to action - some sources say that it will happen as early as October 2016.

In principle, the rigidity of copyright laws in the UK it is hard to be surprised - most recently было It canceled an exception in the law , for the music, which you legally purchased. The exception permits you to make copies of music - and now such copies are considered as illegal.

And now photographers will need to watch closely what items fall into the frame, and in case of what to pay for a license for photographing designer items. Publishers of illustrated books and magazines about the interior have also difficult. And if the British family in the household have designer furniture, the family photos, which it will be seen, also fall under the law.

Many questions remain open - for example, how you need to search for information on whether a particular item subject to copyright. Or, if you are usually the copyright on the photo and has a photographer, why not the rights to the photo of the object will have the one who owns the rights to this place? Making copies of music can still be called a reproducing - but how to regard the claim that the photographs of the object reproduce this place?

Adjacent case occurred in judicial practice in the United States in 2010, the year: if the court granted the claim to the American sculptor mail Service for the use of the image on a postage stamp his Washington memorial dedicated to the Korean War.



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