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me even more restrictive in protecting copyright and preventing copyright infringement. As legislation in the area of copyright law has become more outdated, various means have evolved which allowed third parties to circumvent their responsibilities towards the owners of copyrighted material. New legislation in the field of copyright law has aimed to address this. This legislation has extended the definition of copyright infringement.

It is now an infringement of copyright to purposely disable, or ignore technical devices designed to ensure that copyrighted material is protected from unlawful reproduction. An example of this may be where software on a computer is capable of being loaded onto 3 machines by one user and a third party attempts to load the software onto another user's machine, even if they have the required password. In this case this would be a clear example of copyright infringement.

The new legislation has also created an array of criminal offences that further place limitation upon a users exercise of their rights to take advantage of exceptions to UK copyright law.

It is now a criminal offence to distribute, or facilitate communication of copyrighted material to the public in the course of the operation of a business, or via any other means that causes prejudice to the copyrighted owner. Under the new legislation it is a specific criminal offence to infringe a performers' right to have rights in their own performances protected.

While ostensibly it appears that some of these measures have been put in place to target activities such as file-sharing, it is the case that the measures indirectly place further limitations upon the position of a user taking advantage of exceptions to copyright laws. However it has been argued throughout the essay that this is how things should be.

结论-Conclusion

In conclusion it may be argued that copyright law in the UK protects the position of the owner of copyrighted material extensively. It may further be argued that the extent of these protections has increased in recent years. This state of affairs creates a situation where users of such material who rely upon exceptions to copyright rules to access such material have seen their freedom to do so curbed. It has been argued that there is a public interest in having this balance between the rights of users to access material, while at the same time having appropriate protection for the intellectual property rights of individuals.

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