UK Intends to Make Legal Personal Copying of CDs and DVDs
By Tim Miller
August 4, 2011
August 4, 2011
- The British Parliament signaled today that it intends to legalize the copying of CDs and DVDs onto digital devices for personal use. The new law will not allow people to share content over the Internet without permission of the copyright holder.
- The move will update Britain’s 300-year-old copyright laws, making them comparable to laws adopted in other European nations.
- The change was recommended by a government-requested report, carried out by a professor of digital economy at he Cardiff School of Journalism.
- The report also recommended the creation of a central digital copyright exchange where rights could be bought and sold, but the government has not signaled its intention to act on that recommendation.
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