[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:53:06 +0000 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.
> 

But they also implement bits that it would be politically embarrassing
to ignore. Petitioning is necessary (but not sufficient) to make
omissions politically embarrassing, 

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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