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This Petition asks the Prime Minister to create a specific freedom to create, aggregate, copy, publish and follow links to publicly available information on the internet.

Some large content providers have claimed that the acts of copying a link, and following a link, to publicly available content on their respective websites infringes their copyright if performed without their permission. If links are deemed to be their property, or their permission is required to follow them, the internet will be diminished as a resource and activities which are critical to the operation of search engines, the provision of digital information to the UK economy and to the functioning of a free press and to free debate would be restricted.

Failure to create such a specific freedom risks a serious negative impact on the free flow of information, undermining the efficiency of the UK economy, impeding academic research and damaging the effective functioning of a free press and informed democratic debate.

Current signatories

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• Ed Baines
• John Lerwill
• Laureano Lopez
• Mark Lowen
• Gregg Calter-Quartermain
• Mark Burgess
• Brian Dawes
• Ken Ironside
• Mark Slawson
• Christopher Lawson
• GERRY SAVELLI
• Stuart Flint
• Ian J Mellis
• malcolm cashmore
• Jim Hart
• Stephen Taylor
• Michael Coburn
• Robert William Bickford
• Dominic Jay
• marshall lyons
• John Gallagher
• Neil Scott
• James Porreca
• Philip Clement
• Mark Nash-Williams
• Josephine Toy
• robert meyer
• Richard Kelly
• Jack Storry
• Laurence Erikson
• Matthew Melvin
• Marguerite Higham
• valerie jackson
• Tracy Shorrock
• steve queen
• James Short
• Robert J Steele
• Gary Brown
• Santanu Maity
• Gras Albert
• Manoo Gupta
• Ross Newton-Dunn
• Alan Sutton
• David Pringle
• paul thompson
• Tim Perry
• Andrew Cole
• Seth Ward
• Rachel Baird
• Paul Osborne
• Jeffrey Agate
• ted smith
• Andrew Sharpe
• j.lumsdon
• Tony Meehan
• Abu Sahid
• Brian R Bamber
• Peter Booth
• Adam Cresswell
• kevin warner
• Sarah Godley
• Mark Fulker
• Martin Proctor
• A Birne
• Jamie Beecham
• David Myers
• Valentin Arkhipov
• Robert Kingston
• Ben Morris
• Geth Griffith
• David Crook
• Clive Rea
• Keith
• Alison Clarke
• Chris Murdoch
• Phil Hodgson
• Claire pearcy
• Deborah Parritt
• Richard Day
• darran hughes
• david p rawnsley
• Simon Norcliffe
• Paul Taylor
• Jonathan Howell-Jones
• Gary Beaumont
• Adrian O Dwyer
• Brian Steedman
• Mark Persad
• kamal sharma
• Darren Critchlow
• James Carlton
• Vaughan T Davies
• Ian Davies
• John Hollow
• dan trow
• John Lawrence
• A. Aedy
• Andrew Bradley
• Darren Bowser
• ben drae
• Ben Ward
• William Ward
• Sue Batchelor
• Stan Coats
• tessa lowe
• Sylvia Howarth
• EDWARD MORLAND
• Thomas Martin
• Alistair Paterson
• Mike Vaughan
• Joe Darlow
• Mark Holt
• Jane Dickson
• Derek Minney
• T. Solly
• Raymond McCaughey
• Noreddine Afelahe
• michael melton
• patrick tyrrell
• Gerard Roche
• Edward Robson
• Stuart Glover
• Pete Wellock
• Geoff Porter
• Billy Mckay
• Andrew Beddall
• Adam Longhurst
• Peter Dryland
• Martin G. Cole
• Gavin Rich
• Brian Lewis
• James Chalkley
• Gary Bell
• Kyle Davison
• Andrew Tilley
• Glen Graham
• Andrew Saunders
• Mark Manning
• DC Williams
• david black
• Harvey Donnelly
• James Anthony Jenkins
• Peter McGrath
• Ronald J Lewis
• Philip Vince
• George Carter
• Martin Douglas Hendry BA Hons
• K. Armour
• dave colwill
• Ray Moore
• Steven Leonard Powell
• Adrian Neary
• Keir Frame
• Gerard Armstrong
• Lloyd Christophorou
• Tim Preece
• James O'Donnell
• Ian Smith
• arran pumphrey
• Alvis McDonald
• Mike Pass
• James Crowley
• Kevin Singleton
• alan lund
• Salem El-Khodary
• Alan Liptrott
• Paul Stodart
• Oliver Stanton
• Lee Evans
• J.Philip Davies
• brendan o'connor
• R Andersen
• Lee Watkins
• Roberta Fuke
• Dominic Lane
• Claire Forster
• sally bradford
• Jemma Watkins
• Jessica Hall
• Simon Williams
• Alex Waddell
• Harriet Jones
• Amarish Parmar
• Daniel Garner
• Melita Swan
• Martin Button
• A M Pullon
• Leander Clarke
• Luke Jerromes
• Chris Hawkridge
• Ben Cockburn
• Stephen Palmer
• Philip Anthony Erangey
• Terence Sullivan
• Malcolm Marriott
• Penny Porter
• Mark Shuttleworth
• steve Hall
• clifford brooke
• Ken Youngs
• Michael Maud
• Andy Rose
• Graham Weston
• Mercedes Simpson
• Derek Jacobs
• terry rowles
• William Thorburn
• Dale Smith
• Graham Potter
• Robert Cheney
• kenneth stubbs
• Rupert Morris
• Mark Felstein
• Ross Hanrahan
• Zac Connolly
• Max Little
• PAUL McCULLOUGH
• Pete Hammond
• Steven Flower
• J Taylor
• Nicholas Hughes
• Robert morris
• Tim Casey
• Emma Morgan
• Mark Barbara
• Hussein A.E Musa
• Nigel J Britton
• Lewi Fasulo
• Paul Hyde
• joe norburn
• Alan Smith
• David Watson ROCAVeterans e-petition
• terry cassidy
• Dhiraj Bangar
• Stephen Ballard
• Adam Say
• Malcolm Wood
• david adams
• Howard Rye
• anthony jones
• Matthew Trudgill
• Stephen Howes
• James Gilderdale
• Gary Martin
• mick boot
• eric nolan
• Barry Penman
• Lawrence Wilkes
• Philip Rowe
• Elie Levy
• Chris Martin
• Kevin Barnes
• David Joffe
• Gordon Aitchison
• Steven Boyne
• James Marshall
• David Epps
• Barry James Smith
• Matt Pocock
• Maurice Watts
• Barry Cooper
• Jon Stow
• Richard White
• Mark Lee
• Robert Clay
• Tim Lyon
• Les Kinch
• Philip de Lisle
• Susan Cohen
• Patricia Wilson
• T Dawn Brewer
• stephen Newton
• Andrew Tomlin
• Duncan Ogilvie
• Aron Stevenson
• Robert Edwin Foster
• Paul Johnson
• TERRYMCGINTY
• Rajan David
• Michael Horner
• Maureen Brewer
• Stephen Vintner
• Paul Thomas
• Linda Rygielski
• W R C Carr
• Susanna Winter
• Kenneth Brewer
• David Winter
• Adam Wilbraham
• Roy Walker
• Francis King
• Jiles Halling
• John Norris
• G J Ralph
• Jeremy Stark
• Carl Oliver Hunt
• Elliott Rodgers
• Luca Franchi
• altaf raja
• Phil Thornton
• Scott Mellors
• Jason Latham
• Richard Rutter
• Malcolm Davies
• Scott Livingstone
• Mark Doyle
• Andrew Jefferson
• Christopher Williams
• bobby lawrie
• Andris Zivarts
• Paul Taylor
• IAN WRIGHT
• Patrick O'Loughlin
• Brian Benton
• Joe Reubin
• Nick Kent
• Hoge Hoggar
• Paul Flood
• Curtis Poe
• Nelson Dias
• Phil DEANS
• Martin Smith
• Mark Huxley
• terence gardner
• Bryan Champion
• Peter Ward
• ian waxman
• Tony Crammond
• Nick Wood
• Tim Hards
• kevin barker
• Brian Antoine
• jake auker
• James Emsden
• Keith Wallace
• Scott Vine
• Andy Carter
• Mark Soult
• Glen Ellis
• T Birks
• Ian Divall
• Steve Barlow
• Mark Christian-Edwards
• Paul Bird
• Neal Patel
• Brian Wilson
• Dermott Losty
• Matthew Langley
• Mark Bulpitt
• William Wong
• Michael Carter
• ben slade
• Colin Grant
• stewart ness
• Thomas Gerard Small
• Mark Andrews
• Dominic Bennett
• shane cusack
• Liam O'Brien
• Steve Bryce
• Margaret Fairlie
• gavin barsby
• Peter Jones
• Mr Charles Harding
• James Canning
• Adnan Raza
• Thaki Christophides
• HowardMS
• Shaun Brown
• Kevin Parkes
• Sheila Ann Robinson
• Steven Dickinson
• Philip Booker
• G L Wilson
• Ken Jennings
• Tahir Bin Hussain
• Yvonne Leach
• Michael Trigg
• Oliver Lewis
• Richard Hayward
• Lee McCoy
• Chris Tradgett
• Damian davis
• Sophie Newman
• Elizabeth Randall
• Lee Slade
• jeffrey wheatley
• Suz Winspear
• Barrie Coxon
• Christopher Clark
• John Hughes
• Ben Durodie
• Simon Arthur-Smith
• Vivien Hildrey
• Renzo Gherardi
• Susie Bone
• Hannah Wallington
• Helen Drake
• Carole Davis
• D Bucknall
• Matthew Williams
• Richard Page
• Jonathan Myall
• Karl Radose
• Anthony Heald
• Richard Hubbard
• Manmeet
• paul sturm
• Howard Lucas
• Thomas Horner
• Jorden
• Derek Cafferty
• Sean Kearns
• Mike Beaver
• John Problemi
• Susan Parr
• Christopher Scholes
• David Large
• Mr Peter Holland
• Robert Copleston
• Joe O'Rourke
• Richard Matthews
• RAVI BAINS
• Nick Seaman
• Matthew Cresswell
• Nicholas Kay
• thomas moore
• Alan Mcivor
• Sam Maurice
• Paul Wilson
• Martin K. Smith
• Hanzlah,Nisar
• Jamie John Keith
• MF
• gregor katsoulis
• GJ Dale
• sydney rose
• James Drummond-Davies
• WILLIAM BOORMAN
• Clive Sefton
• Pat Griffis
• John Potsey
• John Aldridge
• Ryan Cameron
• Andrew Gibb
• Mr Milan Zarac
• Gracelino E Camacho
• Adam Hickin
• Jonathan Capehart
• Ronald Russell
• Lionel Mullender
• Adam Doyle
• W MORGAN
• Susan Seal
• James McCabe
• Brian Coles
• Frank Ullathorne
• THOMAS HARRIS
• Joshua Merritt
• Trevor Robertson
• James Barnett
• frank rosice
• James-J Walsh
• adrian roper
• Jamie Young
• Matthew Goodyear
• Richard Moseley
• Rhodri Stone
• Andrew Lowther
• Alistair Kleebauer
• paul gallacher
• Matthew Bujniewicz
• Uel Pierce
• Jay Williams
• bill Ginn
• John Sanderson
• Chris Buckley
• tom fraser
• Richard Peters
• Michael Harvey
• Phil Gayle
• FIONA GREGORY
• Mark Hayward
• Nathan Parsons
• Dean Cruddace
• Richard Lightfoot
• Andrew Smith
• J. Mooney
• Matthew Turner
• tobias lawrence
• david gendle
• Ben Macrow
• charles anderson
• Nina Crawford
• robin barker
• Kevin Steinhardt
• Mathew Parkin
• Andrew Luke
• shaun muller
• Andy Horton

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