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Shouting About Copyright (Popularity:  )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2195347.stm
Technology consultant Bill Thompson discusses issues of concern in the UK implementation of the EUCD, his view being that it ...
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Status of Cryptography Research in Implementation of the EUCD (Popularity: )
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2002-August/020120.html
UKcrypto forum thread discussing cryptography issues in the implementation of the EUCD.
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See the New Copyright Law, and Watch It Suck As Much As the Largest Hoover Ever Made (Popularity: )
http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/sucks/eucd/
Chris Lightfoot's correspondence with Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, over his concerns about the EUCD.
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UK's DMCA: There Ain't No Sanity Clause (Popularity: )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26788.html
Article by Andrew Orlowski [Register]
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Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA (Popularity: )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25088.html
Article covering Alan Cox's speech at the Campaign for Digital Rights meeting [Register]
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Does New Europe Law Mean Slammer for DRM Crackers? (Popularity: )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25256.html
Article by John Leyden [Register]
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Exemptions Exempted in Europe's DMCA (Popularity: )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26717.html
Article by Andrew Orlowski [Register]
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Copyright reform that would hit DVD users attacked (Popularity: )
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=319444
Article on the effects of the proposed EUCD on competition and Fair Use. [Independent]
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Campaign for Digital Rights (Popularity: )
http://ukcdr.org/
Campaign against the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), includes mailing list, background information, press releases and calendar of events.
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Campaign for Digital Rights: European Union Copyright Directive (Popularity: )
http://ukcdr.org/issues/eucd/
Information about why the EUCD is bad, background, and resources.
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Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive (Popularity: )
http://ukcdr.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html
Julian Midgley's critique of the proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive
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Patent Office swamped by EU Copyright Directive response (Popularity: )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28203.html
The Patent Office will miss the EUCD deadline of 22 December due to extensive feedback on the draft UK proposal. ...
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EUROPA - Internal Market - Intellectual Property - Official Documents (Popularity: )
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/docs/
Repository of European Union Directives, Proposals and Reports on Intellectual Property legislations, in PDF format.
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Politech: Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (Popularity: )
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
Text of CBDTPA draft which makes it unlawful to create or sell any kind of computer equipment that "does not ...
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Stop Policeware (Popularity: )
http://www.stoppoliceware.org/
Learn about and fight the CBDTPA. Online petition, banners, news.
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ACM Letter to Senator Hollings (Popularity: )
http://www.acm.org/usacm/SSSCA-letter.html
Letter from the Association of Computing Machinery to Senator Hollings criticizing draft bill.
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Red Hat Legislative Alert: SSSCA (Popularity: )
http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/article2.html
Red Hat strongly opposes the bill because it encroaches on freedom of speech, it could have harmful effects on open ...
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Politech: Sen. Fritz Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) (Popularity: )
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
Text of Senate bill to prohibit the sale or distribution of electronic devices that do not include "copy protection" standards ...
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Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders (Popularity: )
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html
"The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) would also wreak havoc on programmers and software companies -- both ...
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More On Why The CBDTPA Sucks (Popularity: )
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020322/1519245_F.shtml
"Yesterday we mentioned the fact that Senator 'Disney Pays My Bills' Hollings had finally introduced the awful CBDTPA bill. It's ...
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