There has a petition setup on the UK Prime Minister's website, requesting to amend the copyright law in order to give consumers the right to make private a private copy of copyrighted works for personal use. As many UK users may already know, simply transferring the contents of a legally purchased music CD to an iPod, PC or any other medium is in breach of copyright law. So now, this petition aims to have the law amended to allow for this, particularly since the vast majority of MP3 player owners would have already breached it multiple times. This petition has already enough signatures to place it in the top five petitions at present on the website, thus showing there is significant public interest that also would like this change put through.
Thanks to Nila for writing in with the following news:
For all of you in the UK interested in copying your music onto your portable media player, I strongly advise going to the following URL: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/
And signing to show your support for this petition. It might never be heard but at least it's one step more proactive than most people tend to be when they just sit back and whinge!
