Pledge 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK
'I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK' - PledgeBank

If you ask yourself questions like:-

- Why is it fair use to quote text from a copyrighted book in an article but not ok to quote audio or video in a performance piece?

- Why don't the media companies want you to time shift programs and skip the ads in the future the way you've been doing for 20 years in the past?

- Is it extortion by a cartel or good business for the media companies to sue their customers for doing something the customers don't see as wrong and where the customers have vastly less legal resources to fight it?

- Is the life of the artist plus 20 years really a fair term for copyright?

- Should orphan works where the copyright owner is untraceable be automatically public domain?

- Should the media industry be able to mandate that the technology industry build in support for their copy protection schemes and make it illegal to tamper with them?

- Should the BBC be allowed to give away the content they've generated in competition with commercial interests in the same area and under what license?

- And should all this be decided by some faceless bureaucrats in Brussels in a non-democratic fashion where dissenting voices are excluded?

- And should US approaches to all this be accepted by default in Europe and the UK?

Then consider signing this pledge.
[from: JB Ecademy]

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