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10 August 2015Copyright

IP and government: A Conservative approach

For a brief period during the UK general election, intellectual property became a national talking point. It wasn’t, however, the views of the Conservative or Labour Parties that started the debate, but rather the proposal by the much smaller Green Party to reduce the term of copyright protection from ‘life plus 70 years’ to ‘life plus 14 years’.

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