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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What to do with it
As published

40B Libraries and educational establishments etc : making works available through dedicated terminals

(1) Copyright in a work is not infringed by an institution specified in subsection (2) communicating the work to the public or making it available to the public by means of a dedicated terminal on its premises, if the conditions in subsection (3) are met. (2) The institutions are— (a) a library, (b) an archive, (c) a museum, and (d) an educational establishment. (3) The conditions are that the work or a copy of the work— (a) has been lawfully acquired by the institution, (b) is communicated or made available to individual members of the public for the purposes of research or private study, and (c) is communicated or made available in compliance with any purchase or licensing terms to which the work is subject.

Your change, as a redline

40B Libraries and educational establishments etc : making works available through dedicated terminals

(1) Copyright in a work is not infringed by an institution specified in subsection (2) communicating the work to the public or making it available to the public by means of a dedicated terminal on its premises, if the conditions in subsection (3) are met. (2) The institutions are— (a) a library, (b) an archive, (c) a museum, and (d) an educational establishment. (3) The conditions are that the work or a copy of the work— (a) has been lawfully acquired by the institution, (b) is communicated or made available to individual members of the public for the purposes of research or private study, and (c) is communicated or made available in compliance with any purchase or licensing terms to which the work is subject.

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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Think it through

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.

Questions to start with
Think it through
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