Hargreaves implementation: Copyright

Progress - latest news

March 2012

• Digital Copyright Exchange feasibility study  
  
  Today, 27 March 2012, Richard Hooper published Rights and Wrongs: is copyright licensing fit for purpose for the digital age? - Phase 1 report (954Kb) on the Digital Copyright Exchange.

• Copyright Consultation closes
  
  The consultation on copyright closed on 21 March 2012. The Government will publish an analysis of responses within 3 months of this date.

February 2012

• Notes of Copyright Consultation Events published
  
  If you would like an update on what's been going on at our events we have now started to publish readouts of the meetings.

January 2012

• Digital Copyright Exchange feasibility study
  
  The Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) feasibility study will consider options for developing a functional digital market in rights clearance and a source of information about rights ownership, as recommended by the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth and accepted by the Government.

December 2011

• Copyright consultation
  
  Today, 14 December 2011, Baroness Wilcox, the Minister for Intellectual Property, launched a Government consultation seeking views on the Government’s proposals for implementing a number of the recommendations, relating to Copyright, it accepted in its response to the Hargreaves Review of IP and Growth.
  
  For further information, please read the press release issued on 14 December.

November 2011

• Richard Hooper to lead Digital Copyright Exchange feasibility study
  
  Business Secretary Vince Cable announces the appointment of Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on developing a Digital Copyright Exchange in the UK.
  
  Read more about Richard's appointment.