Interesting, I’d missed that the fact that a new consultation was started last week.

We certainly should respond to this, and it would be great if you’re able to draft some notes.

Michael


On 7 November 2014 at 18:00:03, Andrew Gray (andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk) wrote:

Hi all,

The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term
in some unpublished material - this is the "2039 problem" that a
number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where
unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being
potentially several centuries old.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyright-in-certain-unpublished-works

This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have
a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here).
Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it.

I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is
putting something together - have we been looking at this already?

Andrew.

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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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