[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 11:30 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:

> I'm afraid you are wrong. There is no such thing as a fair use exemption 
> in the UK - that is a US specific thing.

Correct, but apparently there's a bill before this session of parliament
to restore the "fair use" exemption.  I tried looking it up (I heard it
reported, and the MP involved interviewed on the BBC a few weeks ago),
but can't find it right now.

> MS exec's have already started indicating that they will soon look to 
> using their patent portfolio in the war against Free Software competition.

The first move in this direction seems to be their buying into Suse /
Novell in an effort to give them some leverage.

Chris


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