Still can’t locate that particular filter- is it only with the new subscription Photoshop?

I have written a comment for you on your website about Alzheimers.
(well more like a youg essay!)
Cheers

Val

thanks for your response.

‘I think you have slightly misunderstood there. The people who set up the orphan works schemes and license the images won’t have to pay. They just get approval from the business secretary to set up a photo library.

My understanding is that to register an image you will have to specify a usage and then pay the IPO for that usage at the ‘market rate’. All of that will take time and money. Possibly more time and therefore more money than simply going through a stock library or sourceing a CC image.

‘As far as the lack of controls and penalties goes, penalties for transgressions are fundamental.’

I have mixed feeling about this. Its right to penalize people, yes, but to date it doesn’t work brilliantly as a deterrant. Look at the music industry.

Your point about banking is a good one. Regulation is important.

‘It also would not surprise me if much of the publishing and creative industries go over seas to jurisdictions that support them better, or more likely simply fizzle out due to better supported foreign competition. And with the loss of them, we loose the other industries that are integrated with them as well. To a large multinational, an advertising or design agency in Germany or America is equally as much a potential supplier as one in London or Manchester.’

We’ll see. But again I would point to the music industry. The labels have suffered but great musis is still being made in the UK.

Thanks again.

Thanks again for your comment.

It is the people who want to license the images from the orphan works schemes who will have to pay. The danger is that orphan works schemes will be allowed to authorize large numbers of images in bulk using a blanket “diligent search”.

As far as the lack of controls and penalties goes, penalties for transgressions are fundamental. If you don’t ban something, there will be someone who will go right ahead and do it. Look at the repeal of the Glass Steagal Act in America. This effectively allowed retail banks to run investment banking operations. The restrictions put in place after the great depression were no longer considered appropriate – move forward just 9 years and you have the largest financial crisis in the last 100 years.

It would not surprise me if, in a few years time, we witness a public enquiry due to the large number of members of the general public (not just professional creatives) who have had their property exploited against their will with major consequences. It also would not surprise me if much of the publishing and creative industries go over seas to jurisdictions that support them better, or more likely simply fizzle out due to better supported foreign competition. And with the loss of them, we loose the other industries that are integrated with them as well. To a large multinational, an advertising or design agency in Germany or America is equally as much a potential supplier as one in London or Manchester.