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Changes to copyright law will make it a lot easier for cloud music services including Google Music, Amazon Cloud Player and the iTunes in the cloud feature of Apple’s iCloud to launch in the UK. Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will announce the proposals in a speech at the British Library today.

The changes also aim to finally make it legal to copy music and DVDs to your computer or MP3 player. Laughably, it’s still technically illegal to transfer content from its original format to another for personal use, which means anyone who owns an iPod has been a lawbreaker for years. Read on for full details on what the changes will mean to you…

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Amazon has taken aim at Apple’s iCloud and Google Music by adding unlimited music storage to its Amazon Cloud Player service. The deal will allow users to stash as many MP3s and AAC as they like in their virtual locker.

The deal, which Amazon says is for a limited time, applies to all new Cloud Drive storage plans from the lowest $20 for 20GB plan up. It means music files won’t be counted as part of the storage space. Even if customers don’t purchase a paid plan, any MP3s bought from Amazon can be uploaded for free.

While iCloud’s iTunes Match feature won’t upload files, its copy of a user’s music library will be limited to 25,000 songs while Google Music imposes a cap of 20,000. Amazon has also outed a Cloud Player iPad web app. Sadly, Amazon hasn’t revealed plans to bring Cloud Player and Cloud Drive to the UK yet.

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Amazon outed Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player overnight, bringing cloud music streaming and storage to Amazon users way ahead of an iTunes Cloud service or Google Music.

There’s no word on a UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive but the US system looks intriguing. The new Amazon Cloud Player adds a “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for saving MP3s and gives you the option to throw music from your hard drive up into the cloud.

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