Member

Is it not ironic that just at the point when our constituents are starting to get it and see the value of copyright, we have a Government who are moving away from the central principles of that copyright regime and are maybe at the point of watering it down, when it has given us sustained success over all these years? I want to thank the campaign and the artists for doing this, because it has moved the Government on significantly. We have now seen them abandon their preferred opt-out mechanism when it comes to their consultation, and we welcome that. Instead of resolving the debate, it seems that the Government are kicking it into the long grass, to this no man’s land of economic assessments, reports and consulting with the sector. That might take years, and we have not got years. We have artificial intelligence, in the form of the bots and training machines, hoovering up all our cultural heritage at this very moment. The matter is pressing, and we need solutions now.