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Intellectual Property Manifesto for the UK

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Copyrighted by dotslashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was this manifesto copyrighted?

  2. Re:Digital is different, you get it off the tubes! by shawnmchorse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make sure you don't buy any DVDs either, what with region codes and encryption and such. Laserdiscs are where it's at, anyway. ;-)

  3. British by wbren · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is destined to go nowhere! People won't take them seriously if they keep misspelling words. I mean, who's ever heard of words like "analogue" and "favourite"? Not this red-blooded American!

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    -William Brendel
    1. Re:British by Haeleth · · Score: 3, Funny

      So, why do you Americans write "favorite" but not "serios", and "sulfur" but not "fosforus", and "alfa" but not "alfabet", and "aluminum" but not "americum"?

      If there's one thing worse than archaic and illogical spellings, it's half-arsed spelling reform that leaves half the archaic and illogical spellings intact.