APIG requests input

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Hi All,

The All-Party Internet Group is soliciting comments about proposed/
potential changes in copyright law relating to DRM.

I already sent in my opinions pointing out that rights granted to
copyright holder are already excessive and that DRM and its legal
protections give copyright holders the ability to write their
own laws. I proposed that any future legislation should ensure
that this cannot happen, and suggested that the penalty for
using DRM to extend rights beyond those granted by law should
be the loss of the legal protection for the DRM.

I also suggested that our representatives should work to reduce
the durations of copyright to that agreed in the Berne Convention
and other WIPO treaties, and in the future should work inside
WIPO to reduce further the duration of copyright and the rights
afforded to publishers.

I got an acknowledgement in reply, which appeared to be personally
written rather than machine-generated, so it might be worthwhile
if more people also sent in their thoughts.

Send your comments to admin-+tg5aH3Dp6/[email protected] --- address from memory, so
I hope it's right. In any case, the address for comments is the
contact address on their website www.apig.org.uk


Dave

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David Haworth                                            [email protected]
Baiersdorf, Germany.

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