Re:Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM
by realusername on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:04PM
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> Also, by "recovering" the image in this way, you strip it off IPTC copyright metadata which makes your copy illegal to use in the UK, for example.
Not sure about the UK but in a lot of countries there are exceptions for interoperability which would nullify this issue since you are converting from an obscure, undocumented and not interoperable format to a standard image format.
Re:Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:24PM
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Yeah, we did get format shifting but it only lasted a few months until the Tory government reversed it. There's nothing that reasonable in Fair Dealing.
Not sure about the UK but in a lot of countries there are exceptions for interoperability which would nullify this issue since you are converting from an obscure, undocumented and not interoperable format to a standard image format.