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UK's DMCA: there ain't no sanity clause (Register)

The Register reports on a critique of the European Copyright Directive. "The UK's take on the "European DMCA" - the European Copyright Directive - will make criminals out of ordinary computer users, according to a new critique by the UK Campaign for Digital Rights. And it will also fail to protect researchers, says Julian Midgley who penned the report."
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UK's DMCA: there ain't no sanity clause (Register)

Posted Aug 26, 2002 12:42 UTC (Mon) by Geeko (guest, #3442) [Link]

Took the trouble to comment to the British Patent Office. Fat chance
my comment will be seriousely considered. Said that the new law will
just mean that real software developement in that sad little future
backwater of a country will just basically end as the best and brightest
minds leave for more free countries, like Russia

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