The UK government has announced plans to introduce a wide range of copyright exceptions.
The plan includes a new private copying right that will permit personal
copying of content onto any medium (including personal cloud storage)
for personal use. The personal copying right will not require further
payment or a levy system. Canada enacted a similar reform this year,
though the levy remains for copying of sound recordings onto some media.
The UK reforms will also include a fair dealing exception for
non-commercial use of materials in teaching. The summary of UK reforms
include:
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The European Commission has dropped its appeal
of ACTA at the European Court of Justice. Earlier this year, the EC
promised to take ACTA to the ECJ to review its compatibility with
fundamental rights. With ACTA now politically dead in Europe, the EC has
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Milton Mueller offers an insightful take on the recently concluded WCIT. Mueller characterizes some of the extreme ITU criticism as "ITU phobia", which he notes:
One notable feature of ITU phobia is that it takes the alternative
internet institutions off the hook. They are inherently good – good by
definition – because they are not the ITU. The ITU-phobic do not care
whether alternative governance institutions perform well, and they cast a
blind eye on the actions of states that are part of the anti-ITU cause.
If the threat to the internet comes from the ITU, and not from a world
of nation-states seeking more power for themselves, one needn’t worry
about such things as ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, the US
CyberCommand, Israeli cyberweapons, the British Cleanfeed system, data
retention and graduated response in the European Union, the Wikileaks
financial boycott, and so on. Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareThursday December 20, 2012 |
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