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Nick Dunmur

@nickdunmur.com
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Professional photographer all my working life. Also Business & Legal adviser to @assocphoto members. Posts on photography, creative practice, politics and (de)generative-AI. Views my own. www.nickdunmur.com

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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 10/06/2026
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 23/05/2026
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Interesting 🤔
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 11/05/2026
community.designtaxi.com/topic/28441-... #JFC #maga = #megafuckwit #narcissismpersonified #PMSL
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Trump T1 Phone makers say 'no guarantee' it will be released, customers demand answers after multiple delays
With the gold-colored T1 Phone still out of sight, many Trump Mobile customers are now feeling less “America First” and more “where’s my package?”. Months after placing deposits for the device, frustr...
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 20/04/2026
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/... Sign and share... 👇
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Don't let Trump drown our future
He’s trying to force governments to reject a key climate proposal. Speak up now!
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 13/04/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Water needs to be brought back into public ownership. Sign and share 👇🏽🙏🏽
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Palantir, a powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion. Please sign: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
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Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 19/03/2026
The @ukgov.bsky.social were mandated through the Data (Use & Access) Act to respond to the consultation we were engaged in last year by 18 March. Their response is… weak. Pleased that a ‘preferred’ TDM option is no longer on the table, there’s little else to celebrate: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
A report and impact assessment on the use of copyright works in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 17/03/2026
This is excellent. 👏🏽 Reaffirming the law is a good place to start 😉.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Good.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 10/03/2026
Petition calling on the UK government to give British businesses a better deal with Europe. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/single-marke...
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British businesses need a better deal with Europe
Sign our petition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and demand a better deal for British businesses trading with Europe
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 02/03/2026
After all the campaigning work that’s been done by so many, if this comes to pass, it’s utterly unacceptable… @the-aop.org @creatorsrights.bsky.social
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 30/01/2026
This is important for all creators in the UK… 👇🏽 #ProtectPromoteInspire #BraveNewWorld #JusticeForCreators
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 11/01/2026
@gofundme.com WTAF!?!
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 15/12/2025
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 10/12/2025
X is not above the law goodlawproject.org/s/b85130
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X is not above the law
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 13/07/2025
Google and Apple must stop making cash out of conning kids and their parents through fake app store age ratings. Join the fight! goodlawproject.org/s/20d2ac
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It’s time for app stores to ban fake age ratings
Google and Apple must stop making cash out of conning kids and their parents through fake app store age ratings. Join our fight!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Project Here.
OBR finds that its projection that Brexit would cost the country £40 billion have 'broadly materialised'.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 13/05/2025
This is insane.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
ChatGPT ass presidency
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 10/04/2025
This: www.londonunderground.live by @ben-jamez.bsky.social, is absolutely amazing 🙌🏽👏🏽🤩
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Live Tube Map - Real-time London Underground Trains
Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See live tube trains across all lines including Central, Northern, Victoria, and more.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
See below for the submission of the @assocphoto.bsky.social to the UK government, strongly opposing the proposed exception to copyright for the purposes of training AI, & setting out very useful context & information in support of their position. h/t @nickdunmur.com www.the-aop.org/uploads/aop-...
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 27/02/2025
Sad to see… massive impact on 10,000 creative individuals: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Technicolor: Historic visual effects studio collapses in UK
The company's UK entity has filed for administration, with 'the majority' of its UK staff made redundant.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 27/02/2025
chng.it/Chtk6bX6pQ of interest to those of us who are concerned about the behaviour of the #techsector in scraping #copyright protected works for use in training datasets (and no, this is not either 'fair use' or 'fair dealing'). #degenerativeai #ai #artificialintelligence = #AutomatedInformation
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Sign the Petition
Sign the manifesto: protect our art and data from AI companies
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 12/02/2025
Looks like #Google are already pandering to #Trumpian #populism…
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 10/02/2025
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c... #degenerativeai #creatoreconomy #createdontscrape #ai = #AutomatedInformation
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Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨🚨 So five years since #brexit and I think it is time reshare Daniel Hannan's absolutely insane and delusional vision of grandeur and hubris that characterised the true engineers and believers of #brexit. Here comes the #brexit insanity No 1 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC Two - Newsnight, Daniel Hannan: What would Britain look like after Brexit?
Daniel Hannan explains why he thinks Britain would be better outside the EU
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 30/01/2025
If #RachelReevesMP really wants to get growth going, then perhaps ensuring decent mobile networks exist along the main train routes would be an easy win. Just spent 30 mins on one transaction that should only take 3 on the @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social route to #London. #productivity #fail
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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🤖NUJ Webinar: AI & Ethics - 22 January Hosted by the union's Ethics council Prof Chris Frost, join online to hear more on ethical considerations on the use of AI in journalism. W/ @nickdunmur.bsky.social @_FelixSimon_ and @Mathilde_Pavis. Open to all - register here: www.nuj.org.uk/learn/ems-ev...
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NUJ webinar - Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🤖NUJ Webinar: AI & Ethics on 22 Jan Hosted by the union's Ethics council @profcfrost.bsky.social, join online to hear more on ethical considerations on the use of AI in journalism. Speakers: @nickdunmur.bsky.social @felixsimon.bsky.social and @Mathilde_Pavis Book now: www.nuj.org.uk/learn/ems-ev...
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NUJ webinar - Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I’m so tired of him as well.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 17/12/2024
www.linkedin.com/posts/nickdu... #copyright #creatoreconomy #mypicturesmycopyright #createdontscrape @assocphoto.bsky.social will be working, along with many other trade orgs representing (human) creators, to try & ensure the UK’s gold standard copyright regime is not undermined by #generativeai
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Nick Dunmur on LinkedIn: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
The Intellectual Property Office UK have just launched the expected consultation on #copyright and #artificialintelligence with a closing date of 25 February…
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/12/2024
Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 09/12/2024
This, amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo... from Jon Stapeley, writing for Amateur Photographer, is worth a read. Great alternatives to #Adobe products from Affinity/Serif software and Capture One. #professionalphotography #createdontscrape #creatoreconomy
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Opinion: Photographers, it's time to boycott Adobe
The company’s AI push shows its naked contempt for the photographers who made it what it is. They won’t stop, so we must stop enabling them.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 05/12/2024
Thks to @graemedowniemp.bsky.social for asking about steps the @ukgov.bsky.social will take to stop unlawful use of #creators work in training datasets. Hope that @feryalclark.bsky.social will listen to what we ( @assocphoto.bsky.social ) & others have to say. www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
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Artificial Intelligence: Copyright
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology written question – answered at 3 December 2024
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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 02/12/2024
Wow… 👇🏽
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 02/12/2024
Follow all or follow some… and it’s good to have stuff in your feed that you don’t always agree with (as long as it’s thoughtful, obvs) 🙌🏽… 👇🏽
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Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 28/11/2024
👉 Please help me build this Arts & Culture pack for newbies to @bsky.app. 👈 I’m collating interesting profiles and feeds, mostly organisations but will add some individuals if they’re sharing useful information and articles. Thanks 🙏 go.bsky.app/9tbNont
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY “We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited” www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 25/11/2024
www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/... This is a worrying trend, confirmed by conversations I have with #professionalphotographers via the work I do for @assocphoto.bsky.social. We need the Arts, our cultural and creative sectors, to thrive.
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Artists’ Earnings Report by the University of Glasgow and DACS - DACS
A new report released today by the University of Glasgow commissioned by DACS, reveals the extent of falling earnings for visual artists in the UK.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 22/11/2024
Any #photographers thinking of signing the #TimesNewspapersLimited contract, which is an assignment of #copyright in their favour, please think twice… This is a bad commissioning contract!
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 20/11/2024
Ditto!
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/11/2024
For those who are meeting us for the first time here on Bluesky, we should say a little bit about who we are. We’re Good Law Project – a people-powered organisation that uses the law to create a better, fairer, greener future for the UK.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 15/11/2024
This is true also, if you substitute the word, “Academic”, for ‘Photographer’… 🫣.
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Nick Dunmur @nickdunmur.com · 15/11/2024
To all new followers (aka #BlueskyBuddies), thank you, & there seems to have been a surge of people leaving Xitter (soft ‘X’, like ‘shh’ 🤓), & joining this platform, which is encouraging to see. If you have professional photographer in your profile then do give @assocphoto.bsky.social a follow too!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Bluesky reaches 16 million users - bsky.jazco.dev/stats 1 million added in the last 27 hours
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Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)
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