This New change to UK law has been brought to our attention. In the past camera club competitions have required meta data to be removed to ensure noisy judges can't find out who it belongs to. I think this will now need to stop. Some of what is said does not seem to make sense as far as registry goes and likely there are bits missed out with the report. Writing my web pages where I want to show a picture belonging to some one else I use a link. This way the owner still has the option to remove the image. However unless one reviews pages regular it is easy for one not to realise when link is lost. As a result many forums prefer to have the image hosted by themselves as the sysops will not be checking for lost links. The new rules likely make it easier for forums to import photos linked to so links are not lost.
The report does seem odd in other ways why should UK based companies be pushing a UK government to change things before they get the US to change so I would think there is some biased reporting but worth taking note anyway.
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