{"id":2163,"date":"2008-01-08T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/01\/proposed_change\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T12:56:20","slug":"proposed_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/proposed_change\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Changes to UK Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty important. Back in 2006, Andrew Gowers published his review of intellectual property in the UK. It was a pretty intelligent look at the state of play in this country, although not everyone was happy with what he was recommending.<br \/>\nAnyway, a year has passed and now intellectual property minister Lord Triesman has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/consult-copyrightexceptions.pdf\">a public consultation<\/a> on proposed changes to law.<br \/>\nThe key change that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7176538.stm\">highlighted<\/a> is making ripping a CD to your computer legal &#8211; as things stand, it&#8217;s currently illegal in the UK.<br \/>\nOver a range of areas, the consultation is proposing a range of options and seeking views on which it should follow. This is actually a crucial chance to affect UK copyright law. So if like me, you care about this area of law, you need to carefully read through the consultation, and respond by 8 April 2008.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll return to this in more detail soon, but I expect that there&#8217;ll be some significant internet debate in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty important. Back in 2006, Andrew Gowers published his review of intellectual property in the UK. It was a pretty intelligent look at the state of play in this country, although not everyone was happy with what he was recommending. Anyway, a year has passed and now intellectual property minister Lord Triesman has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}