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DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK
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| "During today's debate in the UK's House
| of Lords on the much-criticized Digital
| Economy Bill, the unpopular Clause 17
| (which would have allowed the government
| to alter copyright law much more easily
| than it currently can) was voted out in
| favor of a DMCA-style take-down system for
| websites and ISPs. The new amendment known
| as 120A sets up a system whereby a
| copyright owner could force an ISP to
| block certain websites who allegedly host
| or link to infringing material or face
| being taken before the High Court and made
| to pay the copyright owner's legal fees.
| This amendment was tabled by the Liberal
| Democrat party, which had so far been seen
| as the defenders of the internet and with
| the Conservative party supporting them.
| The UK's Pirate Party and Open Rights
| Group have both strongly criticized this
| new amendment."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/0323246/DMCA-Amendment-Proposed-For-UK
Confirmed: Lib Dems and Conservatives force web blocking into the Digital Economy Bill
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| Despite firm warnings from ourselves,
| Consumer Focus and others, Liberal
| Democrat and Tory peers Lord Clement Jones
| and Howard pushed through an amendment
| allowing the courts to order web blocking
| for âsubstantially infringingâ websites.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/confirmed-web-blocking-in-digital-economy-bill
The UK's DMCA; Clause 17 falls, but at what cost?
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| During another intense session in the
| House of Lords this afternoon a vote was
| finally held on the controversial Clause
| 17 of the UK's Digital Economy Bill. This
| clause would have allowed the Secretary of
| State to amend the UK's copyright law with
| a lot less oversight from parliament than
| usual. The government did not hide the
| fact that this provision would be used to
| clamp down on unlicensed file-sharers in
| various ways as the industry demanded.
| However, there was a bright side; the
| clause would have permitted Lord Mandelson
| (or more likely his successor) to do as he
| promised back in October and relax the
| UK's copyright law by bringing in the
| 'fair use' exemptions it so desperately
| needs.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/3/uks-dmca-clause-17-falls-what-cost/
Brits: tell the LibDem Peers not to bring web-censorship to Britain!
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/02/brits-tell-the-libde.html
Related:
Lib Dems demand curbs on 'spying'
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| The Lib Dems want tighter controls on surveillance powers for authorities
| including councils and the police.
|
| More than 500,000 requests to access phone and e-mail records were made in
| 2008, a report by the Interception of Communications Commissioner showed.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8192636.stm
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