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DEA: the dangerous
downloaders actRay Corrigan
Open University
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Making UK copyright lawBismark: sausages and lawsMandelson meets GeffenDEB November 2009
The Mandelson clauseThe Lib Dem Lord (and the BPI web blocking clause)
The Labour Lord “I regret to say that during the course of our consideration of the Bill, we have seen one of the worst examples in my memory of the political parties being captured by a producer interest.”
The Lib Dem revolt (emergency motion at conference)
DEA wash up April 2010
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3strikes Creators (compensate) Economic agents (business models)
Content industry Intermediaries (ISPs) Others
Consumers/citizens (Rights)
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Not about Abolishing copyright Impoverishing creators
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Is 3 strikes in DEB? Probably but not as we know it Jim Details tba Vague language
Any “online location” “likely” to host or be “location via” which infringement takes place (search engines, libraries, universities?)
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What is in it? Technical measures
Details tba in codes e.g. suspension of accounts, blocking user access to sites, throttling
Website blocking By court order
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Problems Suspicion Due process
no prior access to court, appeal after, guilt assumed, details tba
ProportionalityCivil infringement, criminal penalty. ECJ Promusicae
Punish the innocent IP address not infringer
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IP address minister? Timms IP (intellectual property) address
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Emergence
Intermediary liabilityPublic wi fi dead?
Pubs, airports, hotels, libraries, universities
Digital divideGordon Brown, March 2010: "21% of UK adults have never accessed the
internet. That’s over a fifth trapped in a second tier of citizenship, denied what I increasingly think of as a fundamental freedom in the modern world: to be part of the internet and technology revolution".
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Lawmaking in technicolour The worldwide view from Twitter #debll #deact 28,000 wrote to MPs The empty chamber and the whip seen live iPlayer The wash up – not for controversial laws Lib Dem conference reversed front bench MPs when confused turned to music cos for advice (Eg.
My own MP was for and against it)
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Watching them regulating us
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What next? Most front bench MPs don’t get the Net
What it is used for How it works How it should be regulated
Watching them regulating us Ofcom duty to work on the ‘codes’ Great case study for my book chapter
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Gene: I want him in custody by teatime.Alex: Why?Gene: Cos he’s guilty as sin and a dangerous downloading commie…