From both the questions and the answers, I am sure that my right hon. Friend agrees that although the digital age provides enormous opportunities, it poses a range of problems. Can he reassure me, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on publishing, that the publishing industry, which earns billions of pounds a year for the UK economy, is adequately protected in terms of international property rights in the digital age, so that the industry can protect the writers of today and tomorrow and continue to be a cash earner for the UK economy?
Digital Britain
Proceeding contribution from
Gordon Banks
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 January 2009.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Digital Britain.
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2008-09
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