The European Commission are running a public consultation on the future of copyright and they're asking everyone to get involved.

This could be a really exciting opportunity to reshape the way culture and technology interact in the digital age. At the same time, some of the Internet's most fundamental building blocks could be under threat.

You've got until Wednesday 5th March to respond which is just a week and a half away.

We've got the chance to reform copyright to remove some of the restrictions on what we can do with digital products that we purchase. And we can change copyright terms to help put copyrighted works into the public domain sooner so they can be re-used in all sorts of creative ways.

You can tell the European Commission what you think about Digital Rights Management and copyright terms here:
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So the copyright consultation gives us a big opportunity to tell the European Commission how to improve copyright.

Unfortunately, the consultation could also put crucial functions of the Internet in jeopardy. It asks whether you should need the permission of the rights holder of a work before linking to that work or viewing it. If that happened, ordinary everyday web browsing would become a lot more complicated.

Lobbyists from big rights holder groups are taking part in the conversation and telling the European Commission that we should have to get the authorisation of the rights holder before linking or viewing their work.

If we don't get involved, the Commission will just get the views of the large rights holder lobby.

Tell the European Commission why browsing and viewing copyright works shouldn't need the permission of the rights holder:
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