Member

The Government have introduced new clauses 16 and 17, and I do not think anybody has any problem with them—it is good to see that they have finally put a brake on some of their ambitions with the opt-out. What we need is real action. Let us hear more about the dynamic licensing and rights enforcement system that the Minister continually goes on about. If we have to have legislation, it has to be done quickly. We have not got years left to do all this. It could take up to 12 months just to get the reports that the Government mention in their amendments. Beyond that, legislation has to be designed, presented to Parliament and debated here, and then it has to be implemented. We have not got the years to do that. Every day that we delay, more of our cultural heritage is scraped, reused and monetised by tech giants. We cannot afford to sit back and wait for years. Our creators deserve protection now, not after irreversible harm has been done.