Overview

A recent high-profile review by Professor Ian Hargreaves has concluded that the UK's current IP framework is falling behind in the current climate of digitalisation and must adapt. Mills & Reeve discusses the 10 recommendations for change made in the report.

These include the creation of a digital copyright exchange to simplify procedures for licensing copyright-protected works, the introduction of a general right to use works where the author cannot be found, and limiting the scope of copyright so that activities such as format shifting, parody, non-commercial research and library archiving no longer amount to infringement.