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    The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill receives Royal Assent

    2013-04-30 / 8 Comments

    This is a hugely controversial Bill which became an act of law last week. BJP report, ‘The bill was originally written to eradicate unnecessary bureaucracy but presented a series of provisions, introduced through the back door by the Intellectual Property Office, to allow the use of orphan works, such as images that lack metadata and whose copyright owners cannot be found’. Now, the Bill has not been completely finalised yet, although it has received Royal Assent, the proposed copyright changes have not been approved by the UK government. But, if it is finalised it will effectively mean that the government can introduce controversial regulations. As BJP explain, ‘If introduced and…

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