Digital Economy Bill in UK a Menace to Privacy?

[Greg Bernhardt]

The UK parliament*recently passed a piece of legislation called the*Digital Economy Bill (now known as the Digital Economy Act, or DEA). *The DEA is a collection of measures designed to target copyright and other IP violations on the Internet and in other forms of electronic communication. *Reaction to the bill’s passage has been critical in [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualnavigator.wordpress.com&blog=11498882&post=74&subd=virtualnavigator&ref=&feed=1

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Is that act related to the DMCA enacted in the US?

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, the DMCA heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. . . . .

On May 22, 2001, the European Union passed the Copyright Directive or EUCD, which addresses some of the same issues as the DMCA. But the DMCA's principal innovation in the field of copyright, the exemption from direct and indirect liability of internet service providers and other intermediaries (Title II of the DMCA), was separately addressed, and largely followed, in Europe by means of the separate Electronic Commerce Directive. (Unlike U.S. federal laws and regulations, the execution of European Union directives usually requires separate legislation by or within each of the Union's member states.)

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Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

Does the UK recognize 'fair use'?