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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

We want to ensure that the Bill sets out the time limit for making a copyright infringement report, and we suggest three months. There is some sort of Sword of Damocles hanging over a subscriber, and it is important that there should be a time limit within which a copyright owner is required to act. We seek reassurance as part of the purposes behind the amendment that a subscriber will receive a copyright infringement notice—a CIR—in a timely fashion. We suggest setting that at three months. We are concerned that subscribers may not otherwise receive a CIR until many months after the alleged infringement, by which time it may be much more difficult for them to challenge it. That would be unfair and a denial of natural justice. I beg to move.