News: Public Lending Right – planned transfer of functions
On the 27th March 2013, DCMS published its response to the Government consultation on the proposed transfer of the Public Lending Right functions from the existing body. Despite an overwhelming response in favour of the retention of the current PLR office which...News: BCC analysis of Government proposals on exceptions to copyright
The BCCs analysis of “Modernising Copyright”, was presented to officials from the IPO at the Joint Consultative Meeting on 14th March 2013. The paper was prepared for the BCC by its Working Group on Copyright and Technology and it is still a work in progress.Since...
News: Trevor Cook – new BCC Chairman
At its meeting on the 14th March 2013, the British Copyright Council elected Trevor Cook as its Chairman. Trevor has a long association with the BCC. Maureen Duffy, the BCC’s President of Honour had this to say about his appointment“Not only is Trevor a partner in the...