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UK Right to Personal Copy Over-turned?
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Whilst the case was brought by bodies in the music industry, and IANAL, I can't see why this wouldn't also apply to other forms of copyrighted material. Indeed in talking about changes the Government website cites ebooks as an example: Quote:
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Normally I agree with copyright, but this collection of royalties for storage media and facilities is a scam. These royalty collecting bodies are frequently double or triple dipping, sometimes for legitimate licensing and sometimes to license music for artists that they don't represent.
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Will there also be a tax on cellphones or other devices? I would think a lot of music is copied to devices in addition to blank media. .
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So the UK gets the same "tax" as we here in Germany, what a load of crap.
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So everybody that have a copy of än ebook are copyright infringers. That is good. Then we will get less arguments against copyright infringements here.
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Let me see. If everyone has to pay shedloads of money on their purchase of discs and other removable media to cover the losses caused by piracy and private copying, surely they've then paid for whatever they have taken from pirate sites, and it's now legal?
"M'lud, my client has paid some $500 in "copying fees" through the government to the industry. Surely any downloads, up to the value of that payment, is not piracy nor illegal copying, but paid for already and hence legal? My client does not have a case to answer." Sounds like fun. Oh, and is there likely to be a refund or rebate for those who, like me, use as much as 90 percent of their CDs, DVDs, thumb drives etc for their own material? I have tens of thousands of photos, and countless gigabytes of my own video, on such media as backup. Last edited by Pulpmeister; 06-21-2015 at 02:23 AM. |
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Basically it may be a reversion to the silly situation we had for many years whereby someone was technically breaking the law if they bought a music CD and ripped it to their MP3 player, a position that everyone, government and music industry included, agreed was ridiculous, and for which nobody was ever prosecuted. It'll be interesting to see what the court decides is the appropriate course of action next month. Last edited by HarryT; 06-21-2015 at 04:29 AM. |
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Well not according to the argument latepaul did by quoting "The personal copying exception permits you to make copies of media (CDs, ebooks etc) you have bought, for private purposes such as format shifting or backup"
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Copying physical media such as CDs and DVDs, sure, but making backups of digital data such as ebooks has always been legal. As I said in my previous post, though, the reason that the law was changed is that everyone - the music industry included - considered it ludicrous to have a situation where ripping a CD you'd legally bought to your MP3 player was technically illegal.
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I would be extremely surprised if the private copying exemption were to be reversed. What's far more likely is that there'll be some kind of compensation arrangement for rights-holders, as already happens in several other EU countries.
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