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IainB:
Just when you might be forgiven for thinking that the Brits had gone to the dogs, they show a new twist:
Positive developments in UK copyright law:

Video mash-ups and song parodies to be legalised (just as long as they are funny)
By MATT CHORLEY, MAILONLINE POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 07:18 EST, 21 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:29 EST, 21 December 2012

* Copyright law shake-up to make it easier to transfer files between devices
* iPod and e-book users will not be criminalised if copy is for personal use
* Record companies will not be able to block song parodies
Film companies and record labels will not be able to force mash-ups and spoofs to be taken down from the internet under a major shake-up of copyright law.

Ministers have vowed to legalise parodies after countless viral hits have disappeared from sites like YouTube because multi-national firms failed to see the funny side.

It also means the creators of hits like the countless parodies of the Hitler film Downfall, Cassetteboy’s mash-ups of TV shows and the genius behind the Masterchef Synthesia (buttery biscuit base) will no longer be breaking the law by copying and editing popular TV shows.
 
Parodies of the 2004 film Downfall are now so widespread online there is even one which shows Hitler's fury at the number of spoof versionsParodies of the 2004 film Downfall are now so widespread online there is even one which shows Hitler’s fury at the number of spoof versions

The shake-up, ordered by Lib Dem Vince Cable, also means the hilarious video of his boss Nick Clegg ‘singing’ his tuition fees apology would be freed from copyright control.

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Renegade:
^^ Ok. I'll bite. What's the catch? A new 10% tax on all Internet connections to make up for their septillions of losses?

TaoPhoenix:
(Null Post - I miscounted threads. Either an admin can delete this or I'll eventually find something to post here.)

Edit: Didn't take too long, which is depressing.

Network World has a puff piece on "you win, we won't do another SOPA".

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/122412-us-congress-may-not-have-265351.html

Slashdot is calling the bluff on it, so start your clocks here.

One AC over there posted a snip about shenanigans with the NDAA bill.
"This is exactly what happened with the NDAA. Harry Ried broke into proceedings a couple weeks ago and very quickly (almost too fast to understand) said a bunch of mumbo jumbo about amendments and extensions being added to some bill and then motioned for it to be accepted, it was, and then left and they went back to the former proceedings he had interrupted. In all, it took about 30 seconds. What was this bill he was so weirdly inserting something into? Bill 4310. The NDAA.

Nobody knows about it (unless they were watching CSPAN in the middle of the night during those 30 seconds and thought enough to ask what 4310 was). Nobody is accountable for it. And nobody has made a big deal about it."

IainB:
[/spoiler]^^ Ok. I'll bite. What's the catch? A new 10% tax on all Internet connections to make up for their septillions of losses?
-Renegade (December 24, 2012, 05:50 AM)
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@Hero: You are sooo cynical.
But probably quite right.    ;)

IainB:
"This is exactly what happened with the NDAA. Harry Ried broke into proceedings a couple weeks ago and very quickly (almost too fast to understand) said a bunch of mumbo jumbo about amendments and extensions being added to some bill and then motioned for it to be accepted, it was, and then left and they went back to the former proceedings he had interrupted. In all, it took about 30 seconds. What was this bill he was so weirdly inserting something into? Bill 4310. The NDAA.

Nobody knows about it (unless they were watching CSPAN in the middle of the night during those 30 seconds and thought enough to ask what 4310 was). Nobody is accountable for it. And nobody has made a big deal about it."
-TaoPhoenix (December 24, 2012, 08:09 AM)
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Yes, well, I guess that's how you bypass a despised Constitution and due process, and trample on a despised proletariat.

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