According to the 1709 Copyright blog, some of the Gowers review recommendations on new copyright exceptions are to be implemented in the Copyright (Permitted Acts) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (See Annex A, p51).
The exceptions include:
Research and Private Study...
Copying by librarians: parts of published sound recordings and films...
Copying by librarians or archivists: unpublished sound recordings and films...
Copying by Educational Establishments...
Preservation of Cultural Heritage...
...but not format shifting and parody, two of the key areas noted by Gowers. Hugo Cox at the 1709 Copyright blog points out some of the reasons why these have been omitted - primarily because it is complicated and the government don't want to antagonise the content industries with a general election imminent -and in the meantime people still continue to copy millions of songs (eg from CDs) onto millions of digital music players in the confident belief that it is perfectly legal to do so. Unfortunately that belief is misplaced, unless they happen to be resident in a jurisdiction other than the UK that does permit format shifting.
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