On 25 February 2010 14:29, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:

Hi all,

I've just been pointed towards a couple of open consultations from the government that we might be interested in responding to:

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/consultations/Digital_legal_deposit.pdf (Deadline 1 March - so urgent)

Nothing directly of interest. We would support the approach the report recommends but it won't impact wikipedia in any case.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/consult-gowers2.pdf (Deadline 31 March)

Any thoughts / comments?

169 is worrying. Looks like the goverment may want to get the EU to do their dirty work on putting a levy on recording devices or blank media. 171 pretty much confirms this and states:

"The Government does not therefore currently consider it appropriate to introduce a narrow UK-only format shifting exception"

Of course everyone ignores that bit of copyright law anyway.

Other than that it is 94 pages of waffle resulting in some changes of use to libraries, a slight expansion of what is allowed under the private study exception and very little else.