Private Copying and Fair Compensation:

as the underlying empirical data were made available to the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, and published in April 2011 as a working paper on the website of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM). The Hargreaves Review cites the research in developing a recommendation to introduce a limited private copying exception without compensation. Digital Opportunity, A Review of IP and Growth, section 5.30: “As right holders are well aware of consumers ’ behaviour in this respect, our view is that the benefit of being able to do this is already factored into the price that right holders are charging. A limited private copying exception which corresponds to the expectations of buyers and sellers of copyright content, and is therefore already priced into the purchase, will by definition not entail a loss for right holders. ” However, it should be noted that this academic research, and the Hargreaves Review commissioned by the UK government were entirely separate processes. Whilst this report indeed deplores th