This may be a new binding legal precedent, but has in practice been the case since at least 2014 with the Intellectual Property Office's statement at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-digital-images-photographs-and-the-internet
This won't survive appeal. Here's what the UK IPO says about EU law on this:
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union which has effect in UK law, copyright can only subsist in subject matter that is original in the sense that it is the author’s own ‘intellectual creation’. Given this criteria, it seems unlikely that what is merely a retouched, digitised image of an older work can be considered as ‘original’.
At least in the UK the rule is that speed camera income can only be used for the road safety budget. Doesn't prevent some overzealous use, of course, but does put a limit on it.
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This may be a new binding legal precedent, but has in practice been the case since at least 2014 with the Intellectual Property Office's statement at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-digital-images-photographs-and-the-internet
This won't survive appeal. Here's what the UK IPO says about EU law on this:
At least in the UK the rule is that speed camera income can only be used for the road safety budget. Doesn't prevent some overzealous use, of course, but does put a limit on it.