Of course this law is broken every year by millions Brits who only want to be able to listen to their music via a mobile digital music player.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a "private right to copy". In addition, IPPR deputy director Dr Ian Kearns said:
"When it comes to protecting the interests of copyright holders, the emphasis the music industry has put on tackling illegal distribution and not prosecuting for personal copying, is right. But it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have that is the job of government."
It is about time to stop the hypocrisies if we consider that more than half of British consumers are infringing copyright law by copying CDs onto their computers, iPods or other digital music players; according to an study conducted by the National Consumer Council.
It is nice to see UK aiming to move towards a more flexible, but also more realistic law concerning consumer rights for digital music. Amazingly, on the other side of the Channel, in France, law makers are going exactly in the opposite direction thanks to pressure from the music majors to restrict as much as possible the private copying rights...
