Propose a change

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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As published

205E Exceptions to right

(1) The right conferred by section 205C (right to be identified as performer) is subject to the following exceptions. (2) The right does not apply where it is not reasonably practicable to identify the performer (or, where identification of a group is permitted by virtue of section 205C(3), the group). (3) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events. (4) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of advertising any goods or services. (5) The right is not infringed by an act which by virtue of any of the following provisions of Schedule 2 would not infringe any of the rights conferred by Chapter 2— (a) paragraph 2(1A) (news reporting); (b) paragraph 3 (incidental inclusion of a performance or recording); (c) paragraph 4(2) (things done for the purposes of examination); (d) paragraph 8 (parliamentary and judicial proceedings); (e) paragraph 9 (Royal Commissions and statutory inquiries).

Your change, as a redline

205E Exceptions to right

(1) The right conferred by section 205C (right to be identified as performer) is subject to the following exceptions. (2) The right does not apply where it is not reasonably practicable to identify the performer (or, where identification of a group is permitted by virtue of section 205C(3), the group). (3) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events. (4) The right does not apply in relation to any performance given for the purposes of advertising any goods or services. (5) The right is not infringed by an act which by virtue of any of the following provisions of Schedule 2 would not infringe any of the rights conferred by Chapter 2— (a) paragraph 2(1A) (news reporting); (b) paragraph 3 (incidental inclusion of a performance or recording); (c) paragraph 4(2) (things done for the purposes of examination); (d) paragraph 8 (parliamentary and judicial proceedings); (e) paragraph 9 (Royal Commissions and statutory inquiries).

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

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Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

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