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.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

70 Recording for purposes of time-shifting.

(1) The making in domestic premises for private and domestic use of a recording of a broadcast . . . solely for the purpose of enabling it to be viewed or listened to at a more convenient time does not infringe any copyright in the broadcast . . . or in any work included in it. (2) Where a copy which would otherwise be an infringing copy is made in accordance with this section but is subsequently dealt with— (a) it shall be treated as an infringing copy for the purposes of that dealing; and (b) if that dealing infringes copyright, it shall be treated as an infringing copy for all subsequent purposes. (3) In subsection (2), “ dealt with ” means sold or let for hire, offered or exposed for sale or hire or communicated to the public.

Your change, as a redline

70 Recording for purposes of time-shifting.

(1) The making in domestic premises for private and domestic use of a recording of a broadcast . . . solely for the purpose of enabling it to be viewed or listened to at a more convenient time does not infringe any copyright in the broadcast . . . or in any work included in it. (2) Where a copy which would otherwise be an infringing copy is made in accordance with this section but is subsequently dealt with— (a) it shall be treated as an infringing copy for the purposes of that dealing; and (b) if that dealing infringes copyright, it shall be treated as an infringing copy for all subsequent purposes. (3) In subsection (2), “ dealt with ” means sold or let for hire, offered or exposed for sale or hire or communicated to the public.

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.

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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.

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Think it through
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