[Free-sklyarov-uk] UK Parliament date

[Peter Clay]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:

> > Subject to there not being any nastiness in it I think we could gain
> > credibility by campaigning in favour of such a Bill.

Extremely good idea - then we don't just look like anti-copyright
naysayers.
 
> Absolutely.  Now, if it gets through, it could well be in conflict with
> the anti-circumvention clauses of the Copyright Directive (unless
> circumvention is not deemed to be a breach of copyright but a different
> offence, in which case it might still be illegal to circumvent for the
> purposes of making a document accessible to the visually impaired, in
> spite of the Bill).  That in itself could be useful ammunition to use to
> get the Copyright Directive revised.

I've been decoding that large AAP letter you sent round yesterday - it
seems to suggest that under the DMCA circumvention IS a seperate offence
from infringement of copyright, and that that was the intention of the
law. This will probably apply to the copyright directive, but I've not
checked.

In which case, you have a situation which aims to make something
specifically legal for people to do but effectively prevents other people
from making the necessary tools; it should be pointed out how ridiculous
this is.

Pete
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