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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

This is an area to which I have given a huge amount of thought and put in a lot of work over the past 35 years. The Government have done a remarkable job in finding a way through a very complicated area. The most important result will be that works that have not previously been freely available will, effectively, be released into the public domain. This is a major victory and it would be a great pity—I am looking at the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, when I say this—if we tried to make the perfect the enemy of the good. These amendments are a very good compromise, which I commend the Government for having achieved.