The Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr. Sean Sherlock has begun online consultations for the work of the Copyright Review Committee, and their wide-ranging consultation paper examining copyright legislative framework to identify areas that might be deemed as barriers to innovation.
The Minister said: "I welcome the consultation paper… and I encourage the widest possible participation in the consultation process. I am committed to reviewing and updating the Copyright legislation currently in place in order to strike the correct balance between encouraging innovation and protecting creativity, and the work of the Committee is very important in this regard."
The Committee has a dedicated website directly linked from the Department’s homepage until the Review process is complete. The Committee’s site provides various ways to participate in the consultation process. As well as by post and e-mail, the Committee has prepared an online questionnaire to reply to the questions they pose in the consultation paper.
"I am also grateful to the Irish Internet Association for providing an online mechanism to collate its members’ views and to gather the views of others on the Paper," Minister Sherlock said. "Moreover, I would also welcome any similar initiatives undertaken by other online representative groups. The wider the consultation on the Committee’s work is, the better the outcome will be."
The Committee hopes to provide draft heads of a Copyright and Related Rights (Innovation) (Amendment) Bill, 2012, to implement its recommendations, and one of the questions which they pose in the Paper is whether all of the amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 which are still in force should be consolidated into that proposed Bill. I welcome this suggestion, and its implementation would provide an opportunity in due course to update the provisions of the various Regulations in force (including the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 59 of 2012)) if and when they are being incorporated into that Bill."
Submissions on the Consultation Paper can be made via the "online questionnaire" on the Committee’s website, or directly to the Department. In either case, submissions should be received by close of business on Friday 13 April 2012. There will also be a public meeting from 10:00 until 12:00 on 24 March 2012, in the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. Attendance is free but registration is necessary.
To make a submission or register for the public meeting, e-mail copyrightreview[at]djei.ie or write to Copyright Review, Room 517, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
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