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Stop Government Approved Copyright Theft

Submitted on Friday 6th July 2012

Published on Wednesday 18th July 2012

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 18th January 2013

Signatures: 2

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Stop Government Approved Copyright Theft

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Photographers, illustrators and authors are about to lose their digital copyright under a new proposal published by the government at the beginning of July: the Extended Collective Licensing (ECL) program. Under the ECL, any agency could apply to become a licensing authority for a given class of work - for example, poetry - and then license any work in that class *without the rightsholder's permission*. For any fee it cared to set (so long as it was "significantly representative of rights holders affected by the scheme" whatever that means). This agency would have *no obligation to return revenue gained to the rightsholder*.

The government must put a stop to this scandalous destruction of the most basic presumption under copyright law: that rightsholders have the right to give or withhold permission for their work to be exploited, and to set the rate for this use.


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