UK copyright law Modernised soon

[Darksaviour69]

Currently Making backup of your games and making MP3 of the songs you own, is illegal in the UK. The law is very out dated. A petition was made asking:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception to copyright law that gives individuals the right to create a private copy of copyrighted materials for their own personal use, including back-ups, archiving and shifting format."

this is the response

As you may be aware, in December 2005 the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced that there would be a review of the intellectual property framework in the UK, led by Andrew Gowers.

The findings of this review have now been published and recommend the introduction of a private copying exception for the purposes of format shifting. This would allow individuals to copy music which they have legally bought on compact disc onto an MP3 player without infringing copyright.

The Government welcomes this recommendation and is currently considering how such an exception should be created in UK law.

A copy of the Gowers report can be viewed on the HM Treasury website (opens in new window)

[MikeDX]

Don't hold your breath.

Could be good news for people who like to put their bought cds onto mp3 players though.

[dejkirkby]

I can almost guarantee this will NOT mean it will be legal to rip PSP games into ISO's.
I wonder if this will make it legal to convert your legally downloaded mp3's to cd.