For the 10th Anniversary of the iPod...

[Gromit]

...the Government may allow you to put your CD music on it.

http://www.telegraph....y-music-to-iPods.html

[Ankou]

wow, and after 300 years this could add £8bn to the economy.

might have to dust off my engelbert humperdinck cd's just for the occasion.

[jno]

but will you have to have a tattoo like the one in the photo?

[Ankou]

what is that? a scorpion holding flowers?

[anotheoldgit]

/// But sharing files of copyrighted material over the internet is expected to remain illegal.///

Since many were not aware that they were breaking the law, I wonder if you are technically breaking the law by lending your CDs etc. to others?

/// Mr Cameron has suggested he wanted to relax copyright laws in Britain to stimulate entrepreneurship.///

/// "The founders of Google have said they could never have started their company in Britain," the Prime Minister said last year. ///

Can anyone say what this means?

[Gromit]

// Since many were not aware that they were breaking the law, I wonder if you are technically breaking the law by lending your CDs etc. to others? //

Ignorance of the law is no defence. On every CD label it says it must not be copied, lent or resold.

[jno]

/// "The founders of Google have said they could never have started their company in Britain," the Prime Minister said last year. ///

Can anyone say what this means?

Hard to say, since it does operate here. Perhaps he means that at start-up investors would have been reluctant to put money into a potentially illegal operation.

[Gromit]

From a Cameron Speech, November 2010.

// The service (Google) provide depends on taking a snapshot of all the content on the internet at any one time and they feel our copyright system is not as friendly to this sort of innovation as it is in the United States.

Over there, they have what are called ‘fair-use’ provisions, which some people believe gives companies more breathing space to create new products and services.

So I can announce today that we are reviewing our IP laws, to see if we can make them fit for the internet age. //

http://www.number10.g...end-tech-city-speech/

[anotheoldgit]

Hands up anyone who has never ripped a CD to their computer, or lent one to their family and friends?

I wonder if it is also against the law to give one away, that's like lending one, but on a more permanent basis.

Any answer to my other question Gromit?

[Gromit]

What was your other question AOG?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

My question was,

"Can anyone say what this means"?