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Make it legal to copy digital media for personal use

Submitted by Jonathan Hodgson on Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Published on Tuesday 30th April 2024

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 29th May 2024

Signatures: 32

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Make it legal to copy digital media for personal use

Petition Details

We want the Government to make the act of copying digital media for personal use legal. For instance, copying music from a CD you have bought by first copying it to your computer and listening to it from there.

Additional Information

This should apply to copying files for personal use, as well as backups for data protection.

Despite being common practice, the act of buying an album and copying it onto an MP3 player is illegal. It is understood that the industry often turned a blind eye to people copying data for personal use - however I would like to see protection in law for doing this. This petition is not aimed to make sharing such material publicly on the internet legal.


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