Govt launches tool to explain online copyright laws. With Flickr, Facebook and Instagram all becoming such a big part of everyday lives, people can often forget their legal responsibilities they have when using images and photos online.
Situations such as taking a photo on your smartphone and uploading it to a website or copying one of your friend’s photos on Facebook can all lead to copyright infringements if people are not careful. In order to ensure consumers have a better understanding of copyright law and the confidence to use these online services, the government has launched a ‘copyright notices service’. UK Copyright Hub: pilot website now online. The creation of a Copyright Hub was the main recommendation arising from the Hooper Report, commissioned by the UK government and published in July 2012 following the Hargreaves independent review of intellectual property in 2011.
The Hooper Report recommended the creation of a not-for-profit, industry-led Copyright Hub based in the UK that would “…link interoperably and scalably to the growing national and international network of private and public sector digital copyright exchanges, rights registries and other copyright-related databases, using agreed cross-sectoral and cross-border data building blocks and standards, based on voluntary, opt-in, non-exclusive and pro-competitive principles”. The Hooper Report intended that the Copyright Hub would have the following five main purposes: The pilot version of the Copyright Hub at can be found at.