I’m a criminal. Help me change the law.
I own both CDs and an MP3 player. I copied the CDs to the MP3 player so I could listen to them on the move.
My CD, my MP3 player. No third parties involved. Right?
Wrong.
The third party is the rights holder, and I’m in breach of UK copyright law - it has no allowance for private copying (backups, format shifting, keeping a copy in my house, a copy in the car etc etc).
I believe that I should be able to listen to the music that I paid for on any and all of my devices, one of the many reasons I’m one of the Founding Thousand for the Open Rights Group.
Suw Charman, our Exec Director has posted an e-petition on the 10 Downing St. site to try and get the law changed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception to copyright law that gives individuals the right to create a private copy of copyrighted materials for their own personal use, including back-ups, archiving and shifting format.
Join her, us and me by signing the petition.
November 19th, 2006 at 7:36 am
All signed… also, forgot to mention, but there was something on the Today programme about this (the issue, rather then the petition) last week - pointing out the stupidity of it all and stating that there should be an exception to copyright for this situation.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:58 am
Arrest that man! I’ll bet you wear a hoodie as well. Villain.
November 22nd, 2006 at 6:30 pm
I also swear too much. I`m livin` on the edge man - it`s scary out here.