Consumers International IP Watchlist

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Are rights holders prohibited from excluding user rights under copyright law?

For example, rights holders can use the fine print of a licence agreement to take away your legal right to make backup copies or quotations. To maintain balance between rights holders and consumers, it is important that the law prevent them from taking away your user rights through fine print. Unfortunately a majority of countries don't have such a law.

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    [1564] => In part
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Is there any general user right that is based on a set of balancing criteria, such as a "fair use" right?

This deals with the availability of a flexible user right like "fair use", or "fair dealing" when this is not reserved for a specific purpose like education. Such a user right enables the law to adapt to new uses dynamically, and is the bedrock of online innovation in the relatively few countries that have it. Thankfully, we are slowly seeing more countries amending their laws to include a flexible right, and this is a trend that should continue.

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    [534] => In part
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    [110] => Yes
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    [1564] => In part
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    [531] => Yes
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    [545] => No
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Are temporary or transient copies, incidental to a lawful use, excepted from copyright?

It is important for temporary copies to be left out of copyright, because such copies are made automatically every time we use a computer or the Internet. If the making of automatic temporary copies could be controlled by copyright owners (as proposed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement), the use of digital goods would become subject to their permission. The result? More expensive digital products, with more limitations on their use.