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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Overread" data-source="post: 1732828" data-attributes="member: 68571">I don't see how. The new law promotes the idea of less responsibility - you search and if you happen not to find the owner (or report not to have found them) then you can use the image as you wish and the owner (if they show up) has little comeback. As opposed to the current laws which offer more protection should you find your image being used without your consent. This also goes further than just the photographers - can you imagin peoples reaction if they suddenly find a street/beach shot of them is being used in an advertising campagne because the original owner of the image could not be found (unless the use of model releases is still upheld)As for ""Professionals" photographers can sell there images again." I don't understand what you mean. The current laws haven't prohibited the sale of professional images and the new laws make no new avenue for them to sell images. If anything it makes their work harder as they now have to keep their work off the net (makes marketing in todays world a lot harder) as they cannot risk having images stolen and used without permit</blockquote>