and other countries (including Canada) given physical, watermarked copies designed to guard against leaks.
Because it's not possible to scan the paper and post a PDF of the text to Wikileaks.
Copyright legislation protected by watermarks?
Mmmm - freshly grilled postmodern.
Meanwhile - will the Tories be howling at the moon about the loss of national sovereignty created by this insult to the UK's existing copyright legislation?
Or is it a case of IOKWAMDI? (It's okay when America does it?)
is it a case of IOKWAMDI? (It's okay when America does it?)
Totally. Hey, nothing is more desirable among the British politcal class than an idea that has demonstrably failed in the US. keep to the Fen Causeway
the usual methid is not watermarks, but more slight changes in the text, so each copy is individual and can be identified. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
That is a funny non sequitur! Perhaps the writer wanted to describe some thing altogether different (for example, security features, engraved to foil [BWAH] reproduction of the document. Non-repro emulsion polymerized paper, ink, or nanoWTF, bebe.) but conceded either to discretion or ignorance. Hellifino.
What is or are the UK's existing copyright protection(s)? If you sorted that from EU directives, I must have missed that. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.