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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Sweney

Photo agencies to boycott Oasis tour over rights restrictions

People watch Oasis performing on stage
Oasis performing in Cardiff at the start of the tour. Photograph: Afp Stringer/AFP/Getty Images

Photo agencies are to boycott the rest of the Oasis reunion tour, including the first “homecoming” gig in Manchester on Friday, over restrictions imposed on how newspapers, magazines, TV broadcasters and digital publishers can use pictures from the gigs.

The band’s management has told photo agencies and publishers that they own the rights to shots taken at the concerts for just a year, and then they will lose ownership of the images for any future use.

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