jerry12953
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* imposes obligations on internet service providers to reduce online copyright infringement, and allows the Secretary of State to amend copyright legislation to the same end
You have highlighted this sentence from the summary of the scheme, and on the surface it seems to be a good thing. But the devil is in the detail, and the detail is that it will reduce copyright protection of our images.
Once any copyright information has been removed from our files, deliberately or otherwise, they can be used by anybody, for any purpose, subject to a payment being made into a pot held by the government.
If you ever find that your image has been used, you could claim a proportion of that payment from the pot, the remainder being held by government for administrative purposes.
If at the same time there were a requirement to forbid the stripping of copyright info. from images you could perhaps argue that a fair balance had been struck, but as it is, it actually encourages it!

