[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 06:42 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> Not according to the legend on the CD I'm looking at right now:
> 
> "Unauthorised broadcast performance, hire, loan or resale strictly
> prohibited".
> 
> This suggests that I can't even loan you one of my CDs!

Lots of "copyright notices" are in fact complete fiction.

The Copyright Designs and Patents Act specifically permits loaning and
resale. It also permits showing films in a communal setting which is
usually "forbidden" in such notices.

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