Responding to a consultation paper published by the European Commission on copyright reform that asks whether the European Union's Copyright Directive should be amended to introduce exemptions for 'user-created content', the UK Government has stated there should be no new exemption from copyright law for users' adaptations of copyright-protected content. The Government rejected proposed changes that would exempt such users of copyrighted material from restrictions in copyright law and suggested that legislators focus more on improving licensing of material by copyright owners to allow other people to make works using parts of their content.
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