There doesn't seem much chance that the right will be enacted, but its nice to have someone on the side of reason.
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Brits push for private right to copy
A British research organization, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), is pushing for a change in British law so that it reflects widespread current practice in copying music and videos from one format to another, as from their iPod to their computer or MP3 player. Such a "private right to copy" for individual use by people who have bought the material makes sense as long as they don't transfer it to others. (For a good discussion of the pros and cons see this yahoo news link.)
[Posted at 11/03/2006 06:54 AM by John Bennett on IP in the News 
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Someone on the side of reason would say that it made no sense to migrate a monopolistic privilege intended for the traditional publishers' domain of printing presses and discrete physical copies into the digital domain of instantaneous diffusion.
Suggesting the legitimacy of private copying is simply double-speak for reinforcement of the punishments against the individual should they make any private copies available on the Internet.
Legitimising private copying is like legitimising oral sex. A non-event.
Who gives a toss about private copying?
Why not legitimise the childsplay that parents currently get prosecuted for?
[Comment at 11/03/2006 08:46 AM by Crosbie Fitch]
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