In October 2016, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) requested responses to draft legislation published by the European Commission with the aim of modernising the European copyright framework. Professor Lionel Bently led a group of 37 academics from a variety of UK institutions, including Bill Cornish and Henning Grosse-Ruse Khan from Cambridge, who signed a response to the IPO’s request. The letter contains criticism of one particular part of the proposed package, entitled ‘Protection of press publications concerning digital uses’. Lionel was previously co-PI with another signatory, professor Ian Hargreaves, on an AHRC-funded project on news and copyright.
The full response is available to download.