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2 August 2021CopyrightAlex Baldwin

Thousands of authors ask UK to uphold IP exhaustion laws

Thousands of authors including Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Bernadine Evaristo, have signed a letter urging the government to maintain “strong” UK copyright laws in its departure from the European Union.

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