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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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Michael Fricklas, general counsel at entertainment mega-corp Viacom, has admitted that suing end users for online copyright infringement is “expensive, painful and feels like bullying.”

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The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is on the way to going legit (so it claims) but it’s still had its problems recently – knocked offline by a copyright claim and ripped from Google results in one week. But it’s now back online, back in Google and back in business.

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The-Sims-3Before The Sims 3 even launched, it suffered from a staggering scale of piracy at the hands of Bit Torrent users. So how is EA’s CEO John Riccitiello taking it? Surprisingly well, actually; in fact he even went so far as to jokingly refer to it as “our secret marketing campaign.”

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UPDATE: The rumours were right. YouTube is now streaming full length films from Sony Pictures!

YouTube users may soon be able to watch full length cinematically-released films, if rumours of a deal with Sony Pictures pan out.
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Okay, so it’s not the complete abolition of intrusive Digital Rights Management that we’re hoping for, but it’s a step in the right direction. EA has now finally decided to release a software tool that will de-authorise installations of Spore so you can install it on more than five computers.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Except in LittleBigPlanet, where it’s copyright theft and will be moderated (i.e. deleted), thus sending thousands hours of effort from dedicated fans to the digital scrapyard. It may be necessary, presumably to prevent Sony HQ from being besieged by angry legal threats, but it’s now threatening to seriously damage the phenomenal buzz surrounding LittleBigPlanet. Fortunately, something is being done about it.

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Users who have put hours and days of work into creating LittleBigPlanet levels have reacted with fury to their “moderation” (read: deletion) by server administrators. Sony/ Media Molecule are apparently deleting user-created levels for their game not just on the basis of rude pictures or sticking a willy on their main character, but also for copyright infringement.

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