Thursday 6 May 2010

UK Labour Party Claims 'Innocent Error' Absolves It Of Infringement -- But Where Is The 'Innocent Error' Defense In The Digital Economy Act?

We were just noting that the UK's Labour Party appeared to have egregiously infringed on the copyrights of a television program with its campaign poster for the second time, and Shane Richmond, over at the Telegraph, points us to an even more blatant infringement by the same party. In this case, the party put out a pamphlet that used a blogger's photo entirely without permission and against his wishes (he's voting for a different party). more...

1 comments:

Anonymous 6 May 2010 at 12:19  

I'll point you in the direction of Somebody else with dubious media copyright, to a video that he's just made himself.

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