Member

The noble Earl, Lord Devon, raised important points about copyright. As we grapple with these difficult questions in the UK, we cannot and should not ignore the position in other countries. Japan and Singapore view web crawling and data mining as “non-consumptive” of a copyrighted work, and so provide few if any restrictions on it. The USA considers “fair use” on a case-by-case basis, and multiple lawsuits are being considered with no clear pattern emerging. The EU also has an opt-out system, but one that is now having to evolve to incorporate exactly the types of transparency and ease of use that we have committed to as part of our consultation.