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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, this group of clarifying amendments is intended to tidy up drafting and correct unintended errors in this clause. Amendment 27 has been inserted because "copyright licence" is now defined for new Section 116B by Amendment 31. The wording deleted by this amendment is therefore superfluous. Amendment 35 makes a corresponding change to performers’ rights. Amendment 32 inserts the words "by regulations" with the effect that the requirement to adopt codes of practice will indeed be by regulations. Amendment 39 removes the words "in accordance with regulations", this is to ensure consistency with the definition of orphan works in new Section 116C of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Amendment 40 has been tabled so that the sources searched to determine whether a performer’s property right is orphan are sources which are likely to have details which can help trace the ownership of these rights. Amendment 41 corrects an error—the provision is dealing with performers’ rights and not copyright works, so the reference here should be to "recordings" and not to "works", the amendment makes that necessary corrective change. The substitution of "copyright owner" with "copyright interest" in Amendment 42 is again necessary because the provision is dealing with performers’ rights and not copyright. Amendment 43 corrects a cross-reference. Amendment 33 applies the definition of "member" inserted by Amendment 31 to Schedule A1 to the copyright Act and finally Amendment 44 applies the definition of "member" in Schedule 2A to the Copyright Act where Schedule A1 applies for the purpose of paragraphs 1A to 1D of that schedule. It will have been deduced by the House that these are technical and necessary amendments and I beg to move.