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The European Union has so many stifling regulations, no wonder UK voted to exit.

• morsch 10y ago
  I'm sure UK post-Brexit will be a freewheeling wonderland of copyright sanity!
  • Silhouette 10y ago
    It's tough to say. On the one hand, the British government has historically been heavily pro-copyright itself. On the other hand, in recent years there have been some real attempts at significant, if still rather modest, copyright reform. The last of those actually reached the statute books, though it was undermined shortly afterwards, in part thanks to shenanigans involving European law. There is still a depressing amount of old school thinking within the civil service and, particularly offensively, the House of Lords, where any time this debate comes up it seems a succession of privileged and wealthy individuals disclose interests that sound a lot like "I own millions of pounds of shares in Big Media companies" before telling us all why big copyright is essential to our national well-being. But within other parts of the civil service, within the succession of formal reviews conducted by senior judges in recent years, and sometimes even within the Commons, there are also signs of our representatives and political leaders entering the 21st century and realising that the laws of the 20th may no longer serve either economics or technology well.
• afandian 10y ago
  And yet we passed the Investigatory Powers Act with almost no public opposition. EU lawmakers seem distant and out of control. That doesn't mean that domestic lawmakers are any more sane or accountable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016