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Prime Minister David Cameron whose party defeated the incumbent Labour government in May, has signalled for a review of copyright laws to be more Internet friendly.
Speaking directly about the lack of a "fair-use" provision, Cameron believes the current laws may be actually hurting the UK digital economy by preventing innovation, and preventing a British version of Google or YouTube or Facebook from ever becoming a reality. In fact, it was the founders of Google that personally told the Prime Minister that the search engine could not have been created in the UK due to copyright laws that do not take into account the new nature of copyright on the Internet.
The previous government had rushed through new copyright laws, which has yet to be enacted, as part of the Digital Britain study, controversial laws that adopted many of the worse aspects of digital copyright laws from around the world, without adopting measures like fair-use. "The Digital Economy Act left a massive hole of missing user rights like personal copying and parody, " said Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group.
However, Cameron also stated that the review will learn from the US model, but many critics think the US model itself is deeply flawed in relation to copyright protection in the Internet age.
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Speaking directly about the lack of a "fair-use" provision, Cameron believes the current laws may be actually hurting the UK digital economy by preventing innovation, and preventing a British version of Google or YouTube or Facebook from ever becoming a reality. In fact, it was the founders of Google that personally told the Prime Minister that the search engine could not have been created in the UK due to copyright laws that do not take into account the new nature of copyright on the Internet.
The previous government had rushed through new copyright laws, which has yet to be enacted, as part of the Digital Britain study, controversial laws that adopted many of the worse aspects of digital copyright laws from around the world, without adopting measures like fair-use. "The Digital Economy Act left a massive hole of missing user rights like personal copying and parody, " said Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group.
However, Cameron also stated that the review will learn from the US model, but many critics think the US model itself is deeply flawed in relation to copyright protection in the Internet age.
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