The IPO has published a consultation on proposals to modernise the copyright system. Changes to copyright law will be made in order to implement recommendations made in the Hargreaves Review. These include licensing and clearance procedures for orphan works, the introduction of voluntary extended collective licensing schemes (to enable the more efficient mass clearance of rights), new exceptions to copyright to permit limited private copying, the digitalisation of works for library archiving and parody.
More will be said about this in the CR IP bulletin which can be found at www.charlesrussell.co.uk.
