“Sweeping” reforms to Intellectual Property announced

Wednesday, 03 August 2011 00:00

The Government has accepted all ten recommendations proposed by an independent review on IP, conducted by Professor Ian Hargreaves.

Among the key recommendations accepted is that the UK should have a digital market exchange where licences in copyright content could be bought and sold and that copyright exemptions would allowing limited copying of CDs, for example, something which is currently illegal.

A new IP Crime Strategy has also been announced which outlines how the IPO will continue to enforce IP crime domestically.

For more information, go to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills at

http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Aug/reforming-ip

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