Frantically trying to complete an essay which is going to be an abject load of rubbish. Copyright law is, while on the outside very simple, when you actually attempt to read the Act of 1988 you’ll be in for a headache, even moreso if you try to read the Digital Economy Bill (2009) which aims to modify the existing 1988 act, adding more layers to an already impalatably complex cake.
Woah dont go there with a metaphor I’m probably infreinging on copyright just by breathing, someone must have breathed before. I think i’ll have brain running out of my ears by the end of tonight.
A writer to the BJP said that there was no need to simplify copyright law for photographs as it was already perfectly simple but I wonder weather that is because someone taught him his rights as a photographer. I find it hard to believe that he read throught the 1988 act and worked out which subsections and exclusions applied to him then went merrily on his way confident that he knew what was what. He probably would be slumped in a stupor.
Reading through a bill made mostly of amendments is similair an experience to being run over by a truck while simultaneously not caring.
A good friend said knowingly “that’s how they get ya” and he’s absolutely right, noone would have agreed to the passing of the anti terrorism legislation post 2001 had anyone actually been able to understand what it really meant at the time. In fact it is no wonder that people don’t trust politicians as all the material of their promises is coded into fernickety and inaccessible bills reports and acts which leaves a clever but poorly informed Joe public completely in the dark as to weather the politician has gone through with any of the promised deeds.
Actions might speak louder than words but we need to be able to understand the sign language
