The Campaign for Digital Rights has released their first look at the British implementation of the European Copyright Directive, which I will insist on calling “The European DMCA” until I’m physically restrained from doing so. Close up, it has some important differences – but that doesn’t make it any better. CD-R’s step-by-step demolition of it is a corker.
The writing exercise today, then, was pretty clear cut. STAND now has a potted description of just some of the problems with the new statutes, and what you can do about it – and why this may be even harder than the Blunkett RIP provisions to fix.
Oh Christ, that’s such an Anchordesk way to plug it, isn’t it? I’m getting far too into this pro journalism business. Talking of which, I haven’t cross-checked all of the STAND piece with CD-R yet, so there may be some errors of interpretation I’ve fallen into there. I did spend a week staring at the legislation so I’m pretty sure they’re not too egregious. I’m waiting on sending out the message to the few thousand STANDees though; some things you can’t undo.