UK Government Order Review of IP Rights

quaker5567 writes "The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has ordered an independent review of intellectual property rights in the UK. The review will be led by Andrew Gowers, formerly the editor of London newspaper The Financial Times. The review will look into the awarding of IP rights to business, the complexity of current laws and the extent of "fair use" in the current law. Importantly, the review will also examine whether the current term of copyright protection (70 years after the author's death) is appropriate. Andrew Gowers recently criticised the print industry for not realising the true power of the digital platform, comparing them to a record company which specialises in vinyl."

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fucking great

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Brown has screwed up several things and now needs to jack up taxs because of it. He's leading us into a major debt (and screwing over everyone under 40). So now he's going to take away our right to copy things and give the suits even more time to abuse their back catalog. This is getting ridiclous.. we should stop comparing ourselvs to America and instead start going "We're all doomed! Just not 'quite' as doomed".