[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> 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.

There has never neem a "fair use" exemption in the UK. Getting one will be 
a battle.

> > 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.

Looks like it may be.

Jason
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