Learning on ScreenRights and Wrongs: Is copyright fit for purpose in the digital age?: The first report of the Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study
- Title
- Rights and Wrongs: Is copyright fit for purpose in the digital age?: The first report of the Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study
- Date
- 27 Mar 2012
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- Publisher
- Intellectual Property Office
- Category
- Surveys and Reports
- Subject
- Intellectual Property; New Technology; Digital Economy
- Inactive
- No
- Description
- This report finds that the UK’s copyright licensing processes compare well to other countries but there is much that could be improved. Working closely with the creative industries themselves, the report’s compiler Richard Hooper identifies a number of problems including the following: complexity in the way rights are licensed; less availability of repertoire (e.g. films) in digital services over the internet than in the physical world of CDs and DVDs; difficulty in finding out who owns the rights to particular content in specific countries; difficulty in paying creators fair and accurate shares of the revenues created by their copyright content; difficulty and expense in licensing copyright for the high volume/low value transactions that characterise the digital world; and a lack of common standards and a common language for sharing rights information between creative sectors and across national borders.
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