Arrested! anti-GM protest pics

Sunday July 1st. Anti-GM campaigns take protest direct to test site in Girton near Cambridge. One protester is arrested scaling the fence erected to protect the GM potato crop and another is arrested later on for alleged criminal damage.

who says the young arn't interested in politics

keystone cops pose for team photo

moving off - numbers low but at least it's stopped raining

crowd control

And the Police Nature Photographer of the year award goes to....

"Doesn't know his own strength that one"

experimental gene modified potatoes already flowering and spreading GM pollen

Little electric fence to deter rabbits, nothing more

little house on the prairy moment

Chubb security man reads court injunction

Essex cops show off their expensive toy to cambridgeshire plod

insert corny caption here

any place, any where

Do you want fries with that?

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copyright statment is meaningless

02.07.2007 12:52

your photos are in effect in the public domain since you have left no name or contact details, if you want to use copyright to restrict the use of you images then you need to post your name and contact info: creative commons is based on copyright law and copyright law is based on authors being known not anonymous.

lawyer

lawyer

02.07.2007 16:29

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Under Berne/WIPO the author's copyright is automatically assured at the point of creation (unless licensed, sold on or stated as public domain).

So, the author does not even need to assert any explicit copyright in countries that are signatories to such legislation, of which the UK is one.

In other words, all new works are assumed to be subject to copyright even if no details are given, even if the copyright symbol isn't displayed.

Think about it, if it weren't so, a band would have to announce ownership of the copyright to whatever material they owned before and after (and who knows during) the performance. Or, I could go into the Tate modern and slap my name on whatever I fancied.

The onus is legally on the re-distributer (user/borrower/seller etc.) to ensure their copying of a work is legal. Not knowing who the author is not an excuse. Otherwise, I could phone rip off the Rolling Stones back catalogue and just say, "well I didn't know who their publishers are!"

non-lawyer

PC31

04.07.2007 21:01

How do you tell which are the security men and which are the policemen? Many of the policemen appear to have forgotten to put their numbers on their jackets.

Martin