Guernsey's Image Rights Legislation
Guernsey Letter Box Author Alan Ford Jane Lambert Guernsey is a tiny island in the English Channel with a population of 66,000 and a land area of 63 square kilometres. As you can see from the picture above, it has blue pillar boxes and also, so I am told, blue phone boxes. It is all that is left of the Duchy of Normandy which was lost to France by King John. It has its own language called Guernésiais which is spoken by over 1,000 people (mainly OAPs) though English is the language of business, government and everyday life. For me the most interesting thing about Guernsey is that ut has its own intellectual property law which I last discussed two years ago in "Guernsey's Patent Law" . This is made possible by The Intellectual Property (Enabling Provisions) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2004 . S.1 of that statute provides: "The States may by Ordinance make such provision as they think fit in relation to the law concerning intellectual property; and any s...