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» Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA
   Article covering Alan Cox's speech at the Campaign for Digital Rights meeting [Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/30/alan_cox_attacks_the_european/

» Digital Copyright Clampdown to Jump the Atlantic
   "While US campaigners are up in arms about the US's notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act, few people realise that even more extreme legislation is coming to the UK via Brussels."
   http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=1004218894&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=48623&REQSTR1=MSN

» Does New Europe Law Mean Slammer for DRM Crackers?
   Article by John Leyden [Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/13/does_new_europe_law_mean/

» EUCD - Copyright Extensions that Harm
   Risks of monopolies on file formats, reduced interoperability, insecurity, and limits on free speech.
   http://silvaneves.org/eucd/eucd.en.html

» EUROPA - Internal Market - Intellectual Property - Official Documents
   Repository of European Union Directives, Proposals and Reports on Intellectual Property legislations, in PDF format.
   http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/documents/documents_en.htm

» Exemptions Exempted in Europe's DMCA
   Article by Andrew Orlowski [Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/28/exemptions_exempted_in_europes_dmca/

» FIPR - Policy Work
   The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is an independent organisation researching the effects of new legislation and lobbying UK Government parties for the provision of academic and personal freedom.
   http://www.fipr.org/policy.html

» Patent Office swamped by EU Copyright Directive response
   The Patent Office will miss the EUCD deadline of 22 December due to extensive feedback on the draft UK proposal. Article by Drew Cullen [Register].
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/20/patent_office_swamped_by_eu/

» See the New Copyright Law, and Watch It Suck As Much As the Largest Hoover Ever Made
   Chris Lightfoot's correspondence with Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, over his concerns about the EUCD.
   http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/sucks/eucd/

» Shouting About Copyright
   Technology consultant Bill Thompson discusses issues of concern in the UK implementation of the EUCD, his view being that it may eat away at our rights to enjoy music and film. [BBC]
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2195347.stm

» TCPA / Palladium FAQ
   Ross Anderson's analysis of Intel's TCPA and Microsoft's Palladium, technologies for digital rights management which may well have implications upon the implementation of the EUCD.
   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

» The EU's Answer to the DMCA
   "You thought the DCMA was bad? Well EU Directive 2001/29/EU is due to be passed into individual country law next year." News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]
   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226

» UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action
   "Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith. [Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/04/uk_campaigners_call_for_anti/

» UK's DMCA: There Ain't No Sanity Clause
   Article by Andrew Orlowski [Register]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/22/uks_dmca_there_aint_no/

» Why the Copyright Directive is Unimportant, and Possibly Invalid
   Analysis by Dutch law professor Bernt Hugenholtz.
   http://www.ivir.nl/publications/hugenholtz/opinion-EIPR.html