On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 13:46, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27 December 2011 09:42, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
The Government has recently announced a consultation on about changes to
copyright law. This follows a review of the existing arrangements by
Professor Hargreaves over the summer.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/pro-policy/consult/consult-live/consult-2011-copyrigh…
Do people feel we should respond? (Or to reverse the question, can anyone
see good reasons for us *not* to respond? Just to be clear, charities are
quite allowed to do things like this so long as lobbying doesn't become
their main purpose...)
I haven't read the consultation documents yet, but as a general rule I
think we should respond to any consultation about topics relevant to
us. It's a good way to get the relevant people to recognise our name
and to make sure they consider the impact of their decisions on a
section of our society, culture and economy that is very easy to
forget due to so few people really understanding it.
I made a similar suggestion last year about making a response to the
government's public consultation on the formation of the Public Data
Corporation.
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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>