{"id":1328,"date":"2011-06-03T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:59:27","slug":"a-soggy-meringue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"A Soggy Meringue"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve not yet read the article by Simon Crofts<\/em> on the Hargreaves Copyright Review it is worth reading. A freelance photographer<\/a> based in Edinburgh, Scotland, he studied law at Oxford, so ‘The Hargreaves Copyright Review. It\u0092s a soggy meringue<\/a>‘,<\/em>\u00a0 unlike the Hargreaves Review itself, is written by someone who knows what he is talking about.<\/p>\n

Worth sending to your MP too, so that they know what is happening, along of course with your own views. You can read more about the likely effects of adopting the Hargreaves proposals on the Stop43<\/a> site.<\/p>\n

It was pressure from photographers led by Stop43<\/a>, but also aided by the many of us who got our MPs to ask some of the right questions about the proposal that prevented it being bumped into law before. E-mail is easy,<\/a> but paper still gets a lot more attention.\u00a0 Check their name on the e-mail site if you are not sure, then send your letter to them at:<\/p>\n

House of Commons
\nLondon SW1A 0AA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many MPs, including my own former MP (one of those who got their fingers – and seat –\u00a0 singed in the expenses scandal) have been keen photographers and last time I wrote I got a surprisingly detailed and interested response, with my MP contacting the minister and shadow minister and putting my (and his) concerns to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve not yet read the article by Simon Crofts on the Hargreaves Copyright Review it is worth reading. A freelance photographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, he studied law at Oxford, so ‘The Hargreaves Copyright Review. It\u0092s a soggy meringue‘,\u00a0 unlike the Hargreaves Review itself, is written by someone who knows what he is talking … Continue reading A Soggy Meringue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}