FITUG e.V. Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft

FC: U.K. considers even broader version of DMCA copyright law

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 02:52:03 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: U.K. considers even broader version of DMCA copyright law Send reply to: declan@well.com

Text of the draft: http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm

Excerpt (page 14 of PDF):

>  A person commits an offence if he—
>(a) makes for sale or hire, or
>(b) imports otherwise than for his private and domestic use, or
>(c) in the course of a business—
>(i) sells or lets for hire, or
>(ii) offers or exposes for sale or hire, or
>(iii) advertises for sale or hire, or
>(iv) possesses, or
>(v) distributes, or
>(d) distributes otherwise than in the course of a business to such an
>extent as to affect prejudicially the copyright owner any device,
>product or component which is primarily designed, produced, or
>adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention
>of effective technological measures.

Because, based on my quick and preliminary reading, this would ban the mere possession of circumvention tools, it would be broader than the U.S. version.

-Declan

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From: Brad Lipovsky <syzme@charter.net> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: DMCA Spreads To Europe Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:46:18 -0400

A consultation paper has finaly been released from the UK Patent Office about the European Union Copyright Directive, or EUCA. The paper can be found at http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/contact.htm. People have been talking for some time about the European equivalent to the DMCA, and here it is.

--Brad Lipovsky

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