The National Consumer Council, British Phonographic Industry and the Open Rights Group are also lobbying both the current government and the resurgent Conservative Party to modernise the law to reflect the digital age.
“The current stand-off on intellectual property threatens innovation, research and our digital heritage,” said British Library chief executive Lynne Brindley....
The manifesto describes the UK’s copyright legislation as “creaking under the strain” and calls for modernisation to ensure that digital content is not treated differently to printed content.
It also calls for standardisation of digital rights management (DRM), the technology used to protect digital content from copying. “Because there are no common standards there is a notion of content being locked down,” Brindley said....
The British Library’s intellectual property manifesto is based on its submission to the Gowers Review. The Gowers report into intellectual property is expected this year.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/07/2006 03:12:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
