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Copyright

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 113623, tabled on 10 November 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of an international copyright exhaustion framework on the ability of UK rightsholders to enforce those rights.

Answered on

16 November 2020

The Government is currently considering the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime. The Government will be consulting on the potential impact of different exhaustion of rights regimes in early 2021 and how they may affect IP rights holders.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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