Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property

Written evidence submitted by Anita Inverarity

These are my thoughts and recommendations

The rights of visual artists need to be protected as we make our living from our creativity and uniqueness of product. With the rise of internet share sites which are valid for promotion it becomes ever more easy for work to be stolen and copyright breached. The artists work and their rights must have robust protections in place-many create for a living and not just for fun, these rights should be automatic.

· Artists should have the right to profit from their own work

· Artists should have the moral right to their work

· Copyright should automatically be assigned to the artist

· Due diligence should be a matter of course for orphan works

· Art should be protected in the same way and manner as music and writing

· Instead of curtailing artist’s right to their own work, education about copyright and copyright infringements should take place

· The government should not bow to the pressure of Google or other interested parties that want to steal artists’ right to their own work.

· The UK should assimilate its copyright and intellectual property laws with the rest of the EU

· Considering that the internet is already facilitating a ‘take what you want’ attitude the government surely should not support and sanction this attitude

· Loss of revenue due to the fact that artist are not ‘allowed’ to profit from their own work

7 September 2011