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UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fair-use-i-think-it's-called dept.

jweatherley writes "The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting. In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date, and that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.' The report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."

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  1. Lest we get all excited by isaacklinger · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Institute for Public Policy is some sort of progressive leftist lobbying firm. Just calling a spade a spade.

  2. Gordon Brown by Skiron · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only reasonable cause that the UK current dictatorship propose this will be due to them added another 'steath tax'. I beat my last penny there will be a tax introduced on media that is copied - and it will be sourced at purchase.