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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, these amendments would require rights holders to provide the value of the alleged infringement in the copyright infringement report. Although sympathising with the thinking behind the amendments of my noble friend Lord Lucas, we believe that the copyright infringement report should focus on proof of a breach in online copyright and proof linking such a breach to a particular person. The actual value of the infringement is of great importance to the copyright owner. As such, any value is bound to be subjective, which makes it inappropriate for the value to be included to be obligatory, but if the Government come up with an alternative, as suggested by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, we would be interested.