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Digital legislation a threat to creative industry
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| Doctoral research into media education and
| media literacy at the University of
| Leicester has highlighted how increased
| legislative control on use of digital
| content could stifle future creativity.
|
| The Digital Economy Act 2010 alongside
| further domestic and global legislation, not
| least the ongoing âAnti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement (ACTA)â, combines to constitute a
| very hard line against any form of perceived
| copyright infringement.
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http://www.24dash.com/news/education/2010-06-23-Digital-legislation-a-threat-to-creative-industry
NUJ vows to support court challenges against Digital Economy Act
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| The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will
| support legal challenges to the recently
| passed Digital Economy Act, according to a
| new national policy.
|
| The new policy, which was signed off by the
| NUJ's National Executive Council in May,
| raises concern from other industry groups
| that the Act's measures could be used
| against sites that publish material of
| public interest without permission, such as
| the whistleblowing site Wikileaks.
|
| The union policy calls for the Act to be
| implemented in a way that "fully protects
| freedom of information and expression".
|
| Originally, NUJ members focused their
| campaigning on the controversial clause 43
| on orphan works. This was later dropped
| before the Bill was passed into law in the
| "wash-up" at the end of the last government.
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http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/539314.php
Those that Live by the DMCA....
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| ...content owners have to specify precisely
| which files they claim are infringing. They
| can't just say: âeveryone can see there's
| infringement on your site, find it and deal
| with it.â If upheld, that's very good news,
| because it means that anyone that sets up a
| mechanism for carrying out DMCA requests
| doesn't need to go through their entire
| holdings looking for possibly infringing
| materials (obviously impossible for a site
| like YouTube.)
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=3038
Recent:
Paedo-Fear Pushes The Surveillance Agenda
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| For instance, only a huge effort from
| concerned people prevented Europe from
| adopting software patents under the
| pressure of lobbying from big self-
| interested software companies. And only
| continued vigilance will prevent those big
| companies from wearing down resistance.
|
| In the UK a big campaign against the
| excessive measures of the Digital Economy
| Act has had some effect in tempering the
| eventual implementation as prpoposed by
| Ofcom, but it didnât kill it, because in
| the end most elected representatives
| simply donât get it, and let it pass in
| the rush before the end of the
| parliamentary session.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/comment/paedo-fear-pushes-the-surveillance-agenda-7518
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