The British Government has put forward new copyright laws that will modernize fair use in the country. Business Secretary Vince Cable put forward the new proposals in response to last year’s Hargreaves Review, a report that summarized the outdated state of fair use in the UK. As a result, the Government will be changing several key laws. It will finally be legal for people to make private copies of their purchased content — ripping and converting CDs, for example — and "limited copying" will be allowed for the sake of parodying other works.
The revisions to the law still target very specific examples, however. The Government has made it clear that the reforms — due to be introduced next year — still don’t fall in line with...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3791352/uk-government-details-copyright-and-fair-use-revisions
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