House of Commons - The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Propert: Where next? - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee - First Report
The Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Propert: Where next?

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 June 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Evidence-based policy

Proposals for new copyright exceptions following Hargreaves

Format shifting

The legal position on a copyright exception for format shifting

Evidence from the music industry and open rights groups

Options proposed by the Intellectual Property Office

Comparison with sampling

Hargreaves on parody

Relevance of moral rights and reputation

Free speech arguments

Intellectual Property Office proposals

Conclusion on parody

What is content mining?

The legal issue

The arguments for and against

Possible solutions

Public access to publicly funded research

The issue of misidentifying works as "orphan"

A new copyright statute

EU draft Directive

Intellectual Property Office proposals

Orphan works and moral rights

The proposed Digital Copyright Exchange

Overview and status

Collecting societies

3 Designs and patents

Patent thickets

The proposed unified patent and patent court system

Contrast with other jurisdictions and obstacles to a proposed supranational patent

The current proposals and concerns about them

European Scrutiny Committee review

Enforcement of copyright

The Digital Economy Act

5 Advice for SMEs

Annex: Glossary

Glossary of abbreviations

Conclusions and recommendations

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Written evidence

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Prepared 27 June 2012