[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:30:07AM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> > Nope. Fair use, despite what our American friends may have you believe. 
> > The DMCA does not apply in Europe.
> 
> 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.

The UK may go some way to something like that. The report into UK copyright
talked about allowing a few things ... however the Govt (of all colours)
have a reputation for not doing the bits of white papers that they don't like.

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