As I remember what was said she was calling for was the option of a _voluntary_ system where users could choose to buy a licence that allowed them to download the content. The Open Rights Group was not arguing for a blanket tariff and said the leaked legislation was wrong. She even said the government should stay out of legislating on this issue for a while Its worth reading ORGs submission to the Gowers review, they where one of the major players in stopping the music industry from extending copy right term, they are not very lightly to be the people to then go and argue that the music industry should be given money for people simply using the internet. The Open Rights Group is the UK equivalent to the EFF in America.
Glyn Wintle (Avid Open Rights Group supporter) ----- Original Message ---- From: MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:56:57 PM Subject: Re: Copyright term extension rererevisited? "David Gerard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I recommend to all in the UK the openrightsgroup.org mailing list > and wiki for detailed dissection of this sort of thing. ORG is also > getting into the press regularly. Are they worth recommending? Yeah, they get into the press: I heard Becky of the ORG on BBC Radio 4's World at One earlier this week, but she seemed to support collective licensing of ISPs! http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/02/12/government-to-ban-illegal-filesharers-from-the-internet/ Collective licensing of companies is a step towards collective licensing of the whole population through taxation and the establishment of New Enclosures, which should be resisted. Bad ORG. Any ORG members here going to try to correct that? But while apparently not completely friendly, ORG have campaigned against term extension before:- http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Copyright_Term_Extension I didn't find any discussion of this particular event yet, though. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
