[Gllug] Warning: copy control CD

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Davies Sue wrote:

> There is always the possibility that this could be an offence under the
> Trade Descriptions Act 1968.  It is an offence to apply a description that
> you know to be false to goods that you manufacture or sell.  If the term CD
> has a definite meaning and this doesn't fall within that meaning you may
> have a case.  Trying to get your local Trading Standards Dept to take it
> seriously may be another matter.  

Unfortunately Trading Standards have so far shown themselves to be utterly 
useless on this one.

In the first place they generally have no teeth and secondly they also 
appear to simply not understand the issues so far - even when they are 
explained carefully.

The Campaign for Digital Rights (http://ukcdr.org/) have been doing a lot 
of work on this.

Jason Clifford
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