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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. I feel that a strong attempt is being made by the Minister and his team to answer the criticisms, but that they are not addressing the crucial point. I hope that the Minister has read the letter in the Times today that expresses some of these fears. There is no issue about cultural organisations. We have all had correspondence from the British Library, the Natural History Museum and the directors of many museums. There is no issue about allowing those organisations to exploit their archives for their own educational or cultural purposes and for orphan works to be dealt with in a proper manner. There would be no great fear if those cultural organisations had their own collecting societies. The problem is the threat of commercial organisations using orphan works without due diligence.