 Starting from Wednesday 1 October 2014, the new EU law becomes effective in the United Kingdom.There is an amendment to the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.It is now legal for people to use “limited amount” of copyrighted material in online video for the purposes of “parody, caricature or pastiche” without the consent of the copyright holder, only if their work do not convey a discriminatory message, or compete with the original.