Petex’s Comments

• Jun 23rd, 2016 @ 11:08am

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  on Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright
  This won't survive appeal. Here's what the UK IPO says about EU law on this:
  

  According to the Court of Justice of the European Union which has effect in UK law, copyright can only subsist in subject matter that is original in the sense that it is the author’s own ‘intellectual creation’. Given this criteria, it seems unlikely that what is merely a retouched, digitised image of an older work can be considered as ‘original’.

• Oct 22nd, 2014 @ 5:50am

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  on Complete Failure: Chicago's Speed Camera Traps Fail To Bring In The Revenue Mayor Emanuel Counted Upon
  At least in the UK the rule is that speed camera income can only be used for the road safety budget. Doesn't prevent some overzealous use, of course, but does put a limit on it.