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UK copyright law is the worst in the world
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... computer or iPod. "Andrew Gowers, a newspaper editor, recommended that the UK's "fair dealing" laws get a major upgrade and that private ripping of legally purchased CDs be made legal; neither has yet happened." While the European Parliament is pushing for the extension of musical copyrights to 95 years per song, with the backing of the likes of U2 and Sir Cliff Richard, the Gowers Review "said that the current 50-year copyright was plenty of time." You can read the country-specific report online. ...

U.K. Rules the World in Bad Copyright Law
Tech Observer — ... Countries surveyed included China, Australia, Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, and the US, but the UK's consumer unfriendliness (read the country-specific report) can be seen in the fact that it has no copyright exemption for parody or satire. It also assigns the copyright in most government documents to the Crown, unlike the US government, which places its material in the public domain. ...