BREAKING NEWS: missing UK copyright exceptions are back

Probably sooner
than expected

Via Katfriend and 1709 Blog team member John Enser (Olswang LLP) comes the exciting news that proposed UK copyright exceptions for private copying, parody caricature and pastiche, and broader quotation are back and scheduled for entry into force on 1 October 2014.

This morning new draft Statutory Instruments on private copying, and quotation and parody have been in fact released. They supersede former draft exceptions [here and here; but are there significant changes?]. 

Readers will remember that on 1 June last a bunch of new exceptions - including those for public administration, research education libraries and archives, and disability - entered into force, but not those mentioned above.  

Following fear that such exceptions had been actually pulled by UK Government [here and here], IP Minister Lord Younger released a statement [here] confirming that proposed private copying, parody caricature and pastiche [here] and broader quotation would be discussed further by the Scrutiny Committee and implemented later than 1 June 2014.

Let's see what happens now.