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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • You mean the ones who routinely come out saying how X corporation stole their work and they received nothing for it?

    Yes.The ones who routinely use copyright to get some form of payment. I know several people who had their photographs reublished by the Daily Mail and subsequently got payment. It happens. It’s an imperfect system, but still one that allows small artists to make a living.

    he amount of times an artist “wins” in the system vs a corporation is laughable.

    I mean, it really isn’t. It’s the entire backbone of an industry whereby, for example a photographer or illustrator can supply woirk to a magazine on a single use license. It’s how people who supply photo libraries make a living. It’s how small bands have at least some protection.






  • Yes it does. So lets have a look. Let’s say I want to take my family of four down to Devon to see my folks this weekend. On trainline, the cheapest return fair is £239, at not very convenient times. Better times brings the price to £362.

    Add in the price if tube and bus at either end and you are looking at about £400 (a bit over $500) to get down there for the weekend. It’s expensive? Yes it is - and partly because of the limited capacity on rail.

    Now that could absolutely could be improved with additional rail infrastructure - but not by this weekend.

    Of course, if I was travelling by myself - that’s about £66 return and I have done that in the past rather than driving