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Moonraker · 01-17-2007, 10:21 PM

The petition was worded as follows:

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.

Submitted by Suw Charman – Deadline to sign up by: 26 December 2006 – Signatures: 3,295

We each had to provide our residential address and had to be on the UK Electoral Roll to be elegible to sign.

I hope that format shifting includes books because that was the main reason I signed.

Prior to this I had sent a very long email to my Local MP complaining that the Media Companies were using the G8 summit for their own interests. I asked him to bring the matter up at Prime Minister's Question Time. I never got to know if he did bring the matter up - probably not - but ever since I have been on his mailing list so I get to know all the local matters first hand.

01-17-2007, 10:21 PM	#5
Moonraker Addict Posts: 314 Karma: 1002965 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Device: ILiad. Gen 3, PocketBook 360, Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Oasis 2	The petition was worded as follows: 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. Submitted by Suw Charman – Deadline to sign up by: 26 December 2006 – Signatures: 3,295 We each had to provide our residential address and had to be on the UK Electoral Roll to be elegible to sign. I hope that format shifting includes books because that was the main reason I signed. Prior to this I had sent a very long email to my Local MP complaining that the Media Companies were using the G8 summit for their own interests. I asked him to bring the matter up at Prime Minister's Question Time. I never got to know if he did bring the matter up - probably not - but ever since I have been on his mailing list so I get to know all the local matters first hand. Last edited by Moonraker; 01-17-2007 at 10:33 PM.