UK copyright tweak in June will finally allow ripping of CDs
Three years after copyright review recommended changes to the
law to allow format-shifting for CDs and ebooks, the 1988 law
will get an update to allow it  The 1988 Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act was passed in the same year as Prince's Lovesexy
album was released.  Fifteen years after the first MP3 players
went on sale in the UK, it will soon be legal to copy music
you've bought on to them from a CD you own.  Updates to the UK's
copyright laws mean that from June, "ripping" CDs and putting
them on to portable players like Apple's iPod will no longer be
against the strict letter of the law.  But it doesn't appear to
allow people to create digital backups of DVDs - unless they can
show that the copyright protection being used on them is "too
restrictive" in a complaint to the secretary of state, a
position presently held by Maria Miller.  "The law [on
exceptions] is changing in a number of small but important ways,
to make our copyright system be