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6 June 2012 at 12:12pm

DEA - Ofcom Definitions Meeting

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
Another useful meeting with ISPs and rights-holders at Ofcom yesterday, concentrating on the definitions in section 16 of the Digital Economy Act 2010; in particular how those can be used to achieve the objectives of the Act without forcing organisations and networks into inappropriate categories. The emphasis throughout was on addressing major sources of copyright infringement while recognising that those may move between providers and even between types of access.
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6 June 2012 at 10:02am

DEA - Ofcom Launch Meeting

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
I attended a very useful meeting at Ofcom this morning where they launched their plans for the first stage of implementing the copyright infringement powers in the Digital Economy Act 2010. There were about 70 people there covering an impressive range of stakeholders: businesses, hotels, consumer rights, us, as well as both fixed and mobile ISPs and a wide range of creative industries.
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6 June 2012 at 10:02am

Digital Economy Act

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
So the Digital Economy Act 2010 now exists, with no further amendments. However in their final discussion, the Lords raised two of the issues that I have been banging on about for the last three months.
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6 June 2012 at 10:01am

DEB - Last Amendments

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
The Digital Economy Bill completed its highly abbreviated journey through the House of Commons last night and now only requires the final approval of the House of Lords to become law. To get enough support from opposition parties two further amendments have been made to the later stages of the copyright enforcement provisions:
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6 June 2012 at 10:00am

DEB - Problems Acknowledged

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
Amidst a lot of criticism of the rushed Parliamentary process, there was an interesting exchange in the Commons second reading debate last night that indicates that the Government have recognised that education organisations need to be involved  in the development of codes under the Bill:
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6 June 2012 at 10:00am

Networkshop 2010

Andrew Cormack
Network Neutrality
Privacy
copyright
Last week JANET(UK) held its 38th Networkshop in Manchester and a thoroughly enjoyable and informative event it was.
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6 June 2012 at 9:59am

DEB - Costs Consultation

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
The Government has published a consultation on how the costs of the notification obligations under the Digital Economy Bill should be shared out between Rights-holders, ISPs and subscribers. Responses are required by May 25th. (And no, you haven't missed anything. It still is a Bill, not an Act, though consulting on its implementation does seems to presume that something pretty like the current text will be passed before the General Election on May 6th).
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6 June 2012 at 9:59am

DEB - Web Blocking Postponed?

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
Role of ISPs
copyright
The Government has proposed an amendment to the controversial web-blocking proposals recently added to the Digital Economy Bill. Instead of creating the blocking powers immediately, the amendment would give the Secretary of State the power to do so at some future date. This would be done by Statutory Instrument (SI) - a process that permits some Parliamentary scrutiny, but less than a full debate on primary legislation.
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6 June 2012 at 9:58am

DEB - Consumer Focus and Second Reading

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
To complement my summary of the problems for universities and colleges with the Digital Economy Bill, Consumer Focus have published an analysis of the problems for consumers.
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6 June 2012 at 9:56am

DEB - "A Bad Bill"

Andrew Cormack
Digital Economy Act
copyright
Not my words, but those of Lord Whitty on the conclusion of the Lords debate on the Digital Economy Bill. It appears that the 3rd reading debate last night made no significant changes.
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