[Zedicus]

Eurocrats Seek to make Humming/Singing a copyrighted tune a Criminal Offence...

Not Gun Related, but Certanly a Legal/Political Issue worthy of attention...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10907
Eurocrats to criminalise buskers singing "Yesterday"

Vendors can bend your mind


By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 07 August 2003, 08:25

OUR OLD MUCKER Rupert Goodwins at ZD Net pointed out in a column earlier this week that the proposed European IP Enforcement Directive is a broken crock at the end of a sepia rainbow.
Rupes says that the 54-page long document has lots of meat in there that could make €urocitizens' lives a living hell and get you banged up for such crimes as busking Yesterday in public – and so breaching copyright – as well as putting way too much power in the hand of vendors and way too little €urocitizens' way.

Some examples could include using non-Sony batteries with a Sony MP3 player, getting time in the slammer for finding out whether you've RFID tags in your clothes, or using unauthorised tyres on your Sinclair C6.

As Rupes points out, in his article here (http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39115479,00.htm), it's turning intellectual property into thought crime. µ

Has to be some Kind of reccord for Lunicy....

:scrutiny: :banghead:

[Art Eatman]

Lunacy? Well, yeah, but I think "obscenity" is a more descriptive term.

Art

[Monkeyleg]

Um, would yodeling "Yesterday" be ok?

[Drizzt]

yodeling is NEVER "ok"..... ;)

[Zip06]

Good Grief, why didn't the ALCU think of this first?

[444]

This is going to put Zamphier, master of the pan flute, out of business.

[Iain]

See the EU was a really nice idea - up until the point when somewhere, somehow it all got really silly.

Stupid bureaucracy, just an excuse to employ Belgians.