Stephen Streater wrote:
On 20 Sep 2006, at 09:07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Stephen Streater wrote:
If you are right, I can release my Park videos under a free licence.
Yes. It's not a copyright issue. Filming and uploading are two different acts. Whenever a statute proclaims an act to be somehow worthy of punishment it needs to be read perfectly literally sometimes even when the logical consequences of such a reading are ridiculous. One should never impute to parliament anything more than what is actually said.
It looks like a loophole to me, but maybe it is a deliberate one. Perhaps it is the disruption of a professional shoot they are trying to avoid, rather than use of the footage itself.
Loopholes are a normal part of the legal game, but I don't think that that is the case here. Professional shoots do bring in a lot more equipent and staff than one tourist and his family can ever imsagine. Disruption could be even more significant at Trafalgar Square. Smetimes it helps to look at the reasoning behind a law, and in this case it copyright is not a factor. Pictures of Trafalgar Square probably already exist from every conceivable angle.
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