Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Because I think we now have an abundance of evidence that this approach, tried and tested in numerous locations around the world, has not had the effect frequently claimed at the point at which such measures are instigated.

Industry committee  Yes. I think a small claims track is one of the tracks the U.K.'s going down, and I think that is a sensible thing to do. There are other mechanisms that can be put in place to cap costs. Anything that could be done that makes the system more accessible, quicker, and lower cost i

Industry committee  Yes. Getty Images are themselves taking part in the exercise I referred to that's active here at the moment, the feasibility study of the digital copyright exchange. Getty Images' business model, which you've just described in its use of metadata as part of a pricing platform, is

Industry committee  An effective IP regime, including an effective copyright regime, would be one in which the level of abuse or infringement of that regime was relatively stable, relatively manageable, not generating a sense of being out of control. Although my review had quite a lot to say about t

Industry committee  Yes, I think there are a number of dimensions to it. One very clear one is that if it is true--and I'm sure the evidence your committee is considering indicates that it is true--that most innovation in an economy like Canada's or the United Kingdom's comes from smaller firms, you

Industry committee  I would say that the most important finding was that for a variety of reasons, a number of decisions have been taken in recent years that fly in the face of the economic evidence to hand. One of those sets of issues—the most obvious set of issues of that kind—would be the frequen

Industry committee  Well, I've given you the example in the previous answer, the best example or most telling example, which is the extension of copyright duration to a point where it now can exceed a hundred years. It takes us into the realm where it's very difficult to understand what economic inc

Industry committee  Yes, that's an argument, you may think an overly optimistic one, that international negotiation might maximize its chance of succeeding in its objectives if the positions taken are based on evidence on which there might be some agreement around what the evidence points to. That's

Industry committee  The exchange that I proposed did not concern patents but copyright, a digital content right called the digital copyright exchange. Copyright, of course, unlike patent, is an unregistered right in Europe. The idea here is to get a better quality of data into the marketplace, esse

Industry committee  That wasn't a matter the review considered in detail. We did look at it. We published some thoughts, as it were, as a supplementary document. We published a number of supplementary documents to the review, one of which touched on those issues. Those issues are certainly very li

Industry committee  It depends on what the question is. One set of questions around universities and IP involves the relationship between the rights attached to academic published work—the copyright coverage and the nature of the copyright coverage that is involved—and the extent to which you want t

Industry committee  I mentioned that a feasibility study is under way to determine the feasibility of the idea. At the halfway stage of that exercise, the idea received strong support in a piece of work led by an independent outsider that included people from all the relevant sectors of the economy.

Industry committee  Yes. There is certainly evidence that some use of patents is designed primarily not in the pursuit of invention and innovation but designed in defence of existing marketplace positions of one kind or another, some of them more distantly related to innovation and substance than ot

Industry committee  The debate in the U.K., or the practice in the U.K.... The U.K. is a very significant registration point for patents. It has, I think it would be fair to say, a well-regarded patent administration system run through the Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom. What a