IPPR calls on government to decriminalise iPod users
The BBC reports that the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling on the government to decriminalise iPod users by changing UK copyright law to include a ‘private right to copy’.
It would decriminalise millions of Britons who break the law each year by copying their CDs onto music players.
Making copies of CDs and DVDs for personal use would have little impact on copyright holders, the IPPR argues.
Which sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If someone has already paid for a CD once, there really is no justification in telling them that they will have to pay again for the privilege of listening to the same selection of music in a different format.
Monday 30 Oct 2006 | Paul | Music
