Friday, November 22, 2002
Copyright Update: The UK has announced that it will be delaying copyright amendment until next year.
As blogged below, the European Community Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society entered into force on 22 June 20011. Article 13 requires the Directive to be transposed into the national laws of EU Member States before 22 December 2002. The UK have announced that they are going to miss that deadline: according to the UK Patent Office:
the sheer volume of replies, together with the fact that many present detailed arguments and suggestions for alternative drafting, mean that the present analysis will not be completed quickly. A full and proper consideration of all the responses is our principal concern, and the natural consequence of this is that the deadline set by the Directive for implementation is no longer attainable. This is regrettable but also, we feel, unavoidable given the technical complexity of many of the issues involved and the degree of importance attached by certain respondents to some of the proposed changes to UK copyright law (the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended).
While we now see no prospect of meeting the Directive’s transposition date of 22 December 2002, we do remain committed to the earliest possible implementation of this important Directive. We will endeavour to implement the Directive by 31 March 2003 at the very latest.
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