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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps I may add briefly—I entirely agree with everything the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, has said—that the issue does come down to a different situation, whether it is commercial or non-commercial. I take issue with the suggestion from the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, in the previous amendment that somehow we are not focusing—of course we are—on the important issue of freeing up orphan works for educational purposes and so on. There is a strong issue here and I am so grateful to noble Lords, including my noble friend Lord Bridgeman, for raising these issues in debate. Clause 42 is too simplistic. It is approaching copyright as an all-encompassing law, as if copyright relating to music is the same as copyright relating to images. It is rather more complex than that. Because of that, I am concerned that we may be leaving too much to regulation. I wish there was a way that we could improve the Bill rather than leaving all this to regulation as it is too important to get it wrong. We have waited years to address this issue. Although we are grateful to the Government for taking this issue on board, let us please work at it to get it right.