Rogue operators are selling live pictures at a discount, and sporting bodies are losing out from the resulting diminution of their media income. This means that, when they have to renegotiate media rights, they will be offered less,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAstor acknowledged that you cannot ban people from filming, but urged the government to \u201cfollow the money\u201d and to stop those who sell the images on.<\/span><\/p>\nNo Link to Illegal Gambling<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\nHe was backed by prominent racehorse owner <\/span>Lord Lipsey, who said the droners\u2019 actions were responsible for the growth of illegal gambling. <\/span><\/p>\nCallaghan countered that the UK Gambling Commission had found no evidence that this was the case.<\/span><\/p>\nHe added that under UK law, the copyright on sports footage belongs to the person who filmed it. To change that would represent a problematic reversal of the law that would not be a proportionate response to the drone issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK government currently has no plans to prohibit the controversial use of drones around horse racing and other sporting events. That’s because they do not infringe copyright law. That\u2019s according to Lord Callaghan, parliamentary under-secretary of state for the Department of Business, who was responding to questions in the House of Lords, the UK\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":195488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,16693],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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