UK Gets Ball Rolling On Digital Copyright Exchange

• Story by Robert Andrews - 28 November.
• UK business secretary Vince Cable has appointed former Ofcom deputy chairman Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on establishing a Digital Copyright Exchange.
• Cable recently agreed with Professor Ian Hargreaves’  suggestion, in his Review Of Intellectual Property And Growth, that a body be created that lists copyrighted works.
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• “This will make it easier for rights owners, small and large, to sell licences in their work and for others to buy them,” said the review, which set out to update IP legislation for the digital age. “It will make market transactions faster, more automated and cheaper. The result will be a UK market in digital copyright which is better informed and more readily capable of resolving disputes without costly litigation.”
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