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The music industry can look forward to dealing with the same Government minister for Intellectual Property, after David Lammy was charged with continuing to handle the brief last Thursday.

A week after the Department for Culture Media and Sport installed new Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw, Lammy discovered he would not be reshuffled and will retain his ministerial responsibilities (IP and higher education) at the newly-formed Department for Business, Innovation & Skills - created by merging the former Departments for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills.

The new single department, under Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills Lord Mandelson, will boast six other ministers, including Lammy, Pat McFadden and Kevin Brennan. The Intellectual Property Office will also come under BIS's remit.

BPI director of public affairs Richard Mollet says the reorganisation of DIUS and BERR at least reduces the number ...

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