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UK's plan to landgrab US copyrighted works?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 06:35 AM EST

It's true that modern cameras include a load of information in the image file, known as metadata, but that information almost never includes the name of the copyright owner. (How is the camera supposed to know who is holding it and whether they are doing "work for hire"?!) As far as I know it's not illegal to remove the metadata, and often it's rather a good idea to do so in order to protect the privacy of the photographer. For example, if the camera has GPS and there's something in the picture a thief might be interested in ...

What this act does is effectively allow any image which does not have the metadata attached to be treated as an orphan work without further investigation.

I don't think that's an accurate summary. Have you looked at the act, or have you just read Andrew Orlowski's idiotic articles?

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