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Why not do what other sites do: simply link to the original article, and provide a 'via' link to the posting submitted?

For example:

The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has expressed its concerns about the over protection caused by DRM blah blah blah.

More on this at BBC News & Lasting News.

Of course, that requires an editor who does actually read the article, follow the links and decide what's right. Oddly, something similar seems to happen from time to time - this article has links to other sites with analysis... maybe because someone read Google News and aggregated all those links? :)

Mark

It is well worth reading the actual report. The key points of the report:

* A recommendation that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) bring forward appropriate labelling regulations so that it will become crystal clear to consumers what they will and will not be able to do with digital content that they purchase.

* A recommendation that OFCOM publish guidance to make it clear that companies distributing Technical Protection Measures systems in the UK would, if they have features such as those in Sony-BMG's MediaMax and XCP systems, run a significant risk of being prosecuted for criminal actions.

* A recommendation that the Department of Trade and Industry investigate the single-market issues that were raised during the Inquiry, with a view to addressing the issue at the European level.

* A recommendation that the government do not legislate to make DRM systems mandatory.

* A recommendation that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport review the level of funding for pilot projects that address access to eBooks by those with visual disabilities and that action is taken if they are failing to achieve positive results.

* A recommendation that the Department of Trade and Industry revisit the results of their review into their moribund "IP Advisory Committee" and reconstitute it as several more focused forums. One of these should be a "UK Stakeholders Group" to be chaired by the British Library.

* A recommendation that the Government consider granting a much wider-ranging exemption to the anti-circumvention measures in the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act for genuine academic research.

* A recommendation that having taken advice from the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport hold a formal public consultation, not only on the technical details, but also on the general principles that have been established.

The Open Rights Group have more information and they took part in the consultation. If your in the UK I highly recomend you join them as they act like the the EFF does in the USA.

I don't know why this wasn't in the summary, but they have a website here.

I was in the audience for this parliamentary seminar in February where Paula Le Dieu of the BBC Creative Archives Project spoke.

Apparently the biggest problem for the BBC is figuring out how to deal with the copyright problems of background music. Almost all BBC TV programmes have background music, and almost all of that music has been licenced for TV use only, not for download over the Internet.

Until that problem is resolved, there are very few programmes that can be released via the BBC Creative Archive.

The reason you couldn't find the clause is because there isn't one.

The Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill introduced into the House of Lords in May 2002 was an attempt to add denial of service to the Act.

It seems to have sunk without a trace.

The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group still seems to be pushing for it to be added though.

The problem is that the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has nothing to do with the UK Government. It is not even an official UK parliamentary select committee, which would at least get it listened to. It is rather more ad-hoc, and its only noticable fact is that it has members from more than one political party. Don't expect it to have any real influence.