Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Thursday, 18 October 2012
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House of Lords
My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 28DZB, and I shall also speak to Amendment 28EB. More part...
My Lords, I remind the Committee that in the event of a Division in the Chamber the Committee wil...
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Moved by
Lord Jenkin of Roding
28C: Before Clause 65, insert the following new Clause...
My Lords, this proposed new clause calls for a new appointment of a director-general of intellect...
My Lords, I will speak first to Amendment 28C and then to my own Amendment 28D. I support the ame...
My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 28C, following my noble friends Lord Jenkin of Roding...
My Lords, I support very strongly both the new clauses in front of us, but especially that propos...
My Lords, I enter a note of caution. I feel as strongly as everyone else about the importance of ...
My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, in everything that he said. It is important that t...
I support Amendments 28C and 28D, and draw the Committee's attention to my entry in the Register ...
My Lords, it has been a very good debate, and it has got us off to a very good start this afterno...
My Lords, first, as a Scot, I recognise with a little pride the Scottish historical links with in...
I will respond briefly and leave my noble friend Lord Jenkin to respond to the main amendment. I ...
My Lords, contrary to the figures in front of us on the chart, we have actually spent over an hou...
Before my noble friend sits down, I hope that it is in order briefly to answer my noble friend Lo...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
28DZA: Before Clause 65, insert the following ne...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 28DZD.
One of the difficulties about discussing t...
My Lords, I support Amendment 28DZA in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. I agreed with ...
My Lords, my noble friend has done well to raise the question of metadata in his amendment. I thi...
My Lords, I declare an interest as a director of the Bridgeman Art Library, of which my wife is t...
My Lords, with the permission of the Grand Committee, I shall speak sitting down.
I shall s...
My Lords, I not sure why these two amendments have been grouped together because they are complet...
My Lords, Amendment 28DZA would introduce a provision into the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act...
I thank all those who contributed to the debate. I am glad we got to the heart of it very quickly...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
28DZB: Before Clause 65, insert the following ne...
I shall speak also to the other two amendments in the group which are in effect variations on a t...
My Lords, there are concerns about the impact of Clause 65 on designers and manufacturers, but th...
My Lords, I speak to Amendment 28DZB, which has been so ably covered by the two movers of the ame...
My Lords, I support Amendment 28DZB. My noble friend Lord Stevenson of Balmacara has explained to...
My Lords, I particularly support the comments made just now by the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, ...
I want to respond very briefly to my noble friend. This amendment is intended for an entirely dif...
I am grateful to my noble friend for that clarification.
My Lords, Amendments 28DZB and 28EB are intended to ensure that artistic works can continue to be...
Briefly, my Lords, if I may, I understand everything that the Minister has said, but I was a bit ...
I have listened carefully to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones on these matters and have taken n...
My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this debate. We all broadly sung much ...
Moved by
Baroness Whitaker
28DA: Clause 65, page 61, line 8, at end insert—
“( ...
My Lords, this group of amendments is about Clause 65 as it affects the creators of the work and ...
My Lords, I added my name to the noble Baroness’s amendment. I, too, have had representations fro...
My Lords, I oppose these amendments. It seems to me that the extension of copyright design from 2...
My Lords, I speak to Amendments 28E and 28F. The Government, and indeed the IPO, published a fact...
My Lords, Amendment 28DA seeks to ensure that copyright is revived in works of artistic craftsman...
I shall intervene only briefly. It is good news to hear that there is an impact assessment on bus...
I can only reiterate to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones that we are committed to continuing to...
I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin of Roding, and all others who spoke—even my nob...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
28FB: Clause 66, page 61, leave out lines 15 to ...
My Lords, as originally drafted and debated in another place, this clause equipped the Government...
My Lords, I strongly support the amendments put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. The st...
My Lords, Amendments 28FB and 28JAA cover the scope of Clause 66. The Government recognise that c...
I always get up when there is something to object to, but in this case I will thank the Minister ...
My Lords, he does not give me much leeway, does he? I thank him very much, and I withdraw the ame...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
28G: Clause 66, page 61, line 29, after “containing” inse...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 28G, 28H and 28J. I will not speak to Amendment 28JA, but I ...
My Lords, I wish to speak briefly to Amendment 28JA. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and I ha...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, is the most diligent of parliamentarians. If he has not be...
My Lords, I add my thoughts to those that have already been expressed about these issues and have...
My Lords, I will deal with Amendments 28G, 28H and 28J first. These amendments are all interconne...
My Lords, I think we are on a bit of a roll. We had better stay here for the rest of the evening ...
Does the noble Lord not think that we should be asking a little more from the Minister? We should...
That is a very fair formulation. Certainly, I was also reassured that the Minister confirmed that...
That is not exactly how I see it. I confirm that we do not want to prejudge any consideration. Th...
My Lords, the Minister just said that there will be no presumption on bundling, which is a very u...
Perhaps I could just clarify the situation by saying that there is no intention to deliberately b...
I thank the Minister. So if I see deliberate bundling, we will know that this is completely wrong...
Moved by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
28JB: Clause 67, page 62, line 20, leave out from...
My Lords, before introducing amendments to this clause, I should like first to set out how the pr...
My Lords, the Minister introduced his amendment very fairly but I must admit that Clause 67 still...
My noble friend said that museums had found that managed risk had sufficed so far. Does he recogn...
My Lords, I should declare an interest as chairman of the board of the British Library. The libra...
My Lords, given the mess that we were in on what constituted bundling and whether it was directed...
I thank noble Lords who have contributed to the debate. First, I respond to the noble Lord, Lord ...
Moved by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
28JC: Clause 67, page 62, line 22, after “expire”...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
28KA: Clause 68, page 63, line 7, leave out “may” and ins...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 28KA, I shall speak also to Amendments 28LA and 28LB. These amendme...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 28LA and 28LB, which the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, ha...
My Lords, I associate myself with what my noble friend Lord Howarth has just said. He put it conc...
My Lords, while there is a danger of me saying, “Me, too” and sitting down, I would like to reinf...
My Lords, I have every sympathy with the aims of the British Library, the Wellcome Foundation and...
My Lords, I should like to add my voice to the “Me toos” of the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, and the...
My Lords, I am not going to give any comfort to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones on this, I am ...
My Lords, I find myself in agreement with everyone except the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on ...
My Lords, Amendment 28LA would limit the scope of the UK orphan works scheme to that of the EU di...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply, and other noble Lords for their not always helpful ...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
28L: Clause 68, page 63, leave out lines 8 to 11 and inse...
My Lords, I thought that the Committee might appreciate, rather than approve, a rather different ...
My Lords, these amendments have at least enabled us to discuss some very important issues. I want...
My Lords, I also comment on the question of diligent search. I agree that we need clarification a...
My Lords, in the interests of time, I really will just say “me too”. I very much support the comm...
My Lords, I realise that I failed to speak to Amendment 30, so if I may I will just finish this g...
My Lords, I want to make it clear that we on this side support the ECL approach in general. The r...
I beg your pardon?
If I can clarify, we are still on orphan works amendments, which are designed to improve the orph...
Before the Minister responds, the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, apologised that she had to dep...
My Lords, the amendments cover both the scope and detail of the proposals for a UK orphan works s...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that helpful reply. His speech will certainly need some studyi...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
28SA: Clause 68, page 63, leave out lines 29 to 31 and in...
My Lords, I move this amendment on the basis that noble Lords wish to carry on beyond eight o’clo...
I rise briefly, given the hour, wholly to support the amendments tabled by my noble friend Lord C...
My Lords, there is a mass of significant matter in these amendments. It is, perhaps, a rather unf...
My Lords, I, too, reiterate what the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, said. It is entirely inappropriate...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 28WA. The key issue is whether it may be necessary to broade...
My Lords, this group of amendments seeks to add further detail or limitations on the face of the ...
Very briefly, because the hour is late, I echo what the noble Lord, Lord Greenway, said. It is un...
My Lords, this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.