UK Prepares Own Version of the DMCA

Posted by michael on Friday August 9, 2002 @10:33AM from the bow-to-the-inevitable dept.

philkerr writes "I've just been informed by the UK Patent Office, below, that the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive, the equivalent EU legislation to the DMCA) consultation paper has been released. It's important that we give feedback to the UK government that this legislation will have a chilling effect on the software industry." NTK has a few choice words on the subject as well. We've done several articles on the EUCD before, and Alan Cox has been campaigning against it, but it appears that the fix is in: Europe is going to get DMCA-like laws implemented in each nation by the end of 2002.

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Re:Did the information on this come from... by mhesseltine · 2002-08-09 10:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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OT:If I'm posting a reply to my post to make a correction, why do I have to wait 20 fscking seconds to do this? Couldn't slashcode see that I'm the original poster and figure that I'm fixing something??

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