Re: [LUG] European Copyright Directive Reminder

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RIck wrote:
> Further to this subject, I read the posted article earlier today, which at
> some point in the text said that although it was an open discussion of the
> policy, the laws had already been put into place, NICE ;-)

It is a European directive, the government is obliged to put
it's provisions into UK law.

As far as I know parliament still makes UK law, and they
certainly can amend and clarify, and adjust exceptions.

They could not put it into law, nominally they could then be
fined, but that sounds like it would a gift to the anti-european
movement, "parliament fined by Europe for not making laws it
considers bad".....

Alternatively we could just dump the whole Europe thing, whilst
I am pro-Euro, the whole federal state thing is out of hand,
European laws are being brought closer in line than those of US
states in many cases, but with less democratic representation.
And now the French seem to want us to pay more, presumably with
the tax revenue from our newly increasd beef exports ;-)

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