The United Kingdom is the kopi lwa ren of content that a user is in possession of it, legalize it. That means, for example, that the ripping of a cd is allowed. Currently, this is officially prohibited, although there is never someone for continued.
The British government has announced that it is going to work on a renewed law on copyright, which consumers will soon be legally a cd or dvd can ripping. At this time, there exists in the United Kingdom no such thing as a private copying. Also the backing up of copyrighted content to a cloud-based, will be legalized.
The government stresses that it comes to copy of content that a user already has in his possession, and strictly for personal use. Thus, it appears that the downloading of copyrighted material of, for example, usenet is not being legalized. At this time, is that in the Netherlands the case, already went there in the past suggested that in the Netherlands a downloadverbod; Thursday showed that provisionally, however, no question of will.
In contrast to the Netherlands there will be in the United Kingdom does not have a thuiskopieheffing be entered. In the Netherlands, there is that charge for damages that copyright owners, by copying to suffer, to compensate. According to the British government, the impact of home copying, however, is minimal, and it is an unnecessary added burden on citizens.
The introduction of a thuiskopieregeling is part of a package of measures to the British copyright reform. Other measures should, for example, the education benefit: for teachers, it should be easier to be to copyrighted material. Also for the news media and satire, the rules are broadened.