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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, my hearing is getting thin, as I thought that the noble Lord referred to prisoners’ appeals. I hope that we have not quite reached that point. He did, I am sure, say earlier that the copyright owner would already have provided evidence that they owned the copyright. I cannot see that anywhere in the Bill. It is an important part of this amendment. In other words, the copyright owner must establish that they are entitled to pursue the person under the Bill. Surely it has to be the copyright owner who establishes that. I cannot see it provided for at an earlier stage,