Intellectual Property Manifesto for the UK

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @05:41PM from the countdown-to-quashed-in-3-2-1 dept.

feepcreature writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the British Library has published a Manifesto calling for a balance in Intellectual Property rights between the interests of users, creators and publishers. There are 6 key recommendations, including: DRM should not override users' statutory rights; analogue rights should apply to digital media; and copyright terms should not be extended without evidence that this would be good for society. There is also part of the debate on the UK Government's Gowers review of Intellectual Property, due to report in the Autumn."

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Re:Agree and disagree by Pofy · 2006-10-02 22:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

>Except buying a lot of digital goods second hand is going
>to become next to impossible as they get tied to USERS rather
>than being tied to a physical product like a CD or DVD.

So? Untie them first! It is very hard to tie a non service to a person. One can argue that companies want to sell everything as services instead, on the other hand, if there is a damnd for selling goods, there will be those that offer it, buy that. However, the topic of discussion was the price of a product, not its availability.