I posted this to the Internet OTR Digest last week, but I forot to post it here. If you missed the hour-long interview with Norman Corwin aired on XM Satellite Radio’s The Bob Edwards Show in July of 2005, you’ll get another chance today on XMPR, Channel 133 - 8:00 am and 9:00 am in the east, 7:00 am and 5:00 pm in the west. If you aren’t a subscriber to XM Satellite Radio, you can get a free three-day pass for XM Online and hear the show online all day on Monday, and then repeated every fifth hour over the weekend.
From the BBC News: UK Institute for Public Policy Research - Copying own CDs ’should be legal’
From the article: “The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for 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.
“Copyright issues have, in the past, been steered too much by the music industry, the report said.”
Now if the United States had an organization like this one, to promote the fair use concept the MPAA/RIAA is so desperate to destroy…
