Lord Lucas, a Conservative peer, has tabled several amendments to the Digital Economy Bill that would settle a number of copyright and electronic publishing arguments once and for all. The one that’s been catching the headlines is immunity for search engines from prosecution under copyright laws as they go about their normal business of searching the web. ... Also included in the amendments are a legal right to shift an electronic work that you have legally aquired to any format you chose for your own personal use, ending the nonsense that makes the music on every iPod in the country technically illegal and a clarification of the rights issues involved in online streaming. ... Most radical and interesting, though, is the right of copyright creators to re-market their work. Should a copyright owner fail to offer a work in all formats in all regions, the original creator has the right to compel them to allow them a licence to publish it themselves after two years.
Source: The Telegraph
