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UK lobby builds to ensure adoption of key issues in copyright directive.
The UK music industry is gearing up to lobby the DTI and the patent office following the publication of the long-awaited EC copyright directive.
The BPI will be among those aiming to ensure that both the UK patent office and the DTI adopt the directive's key provisions when it becomes integrated with UK law during the next 18 months.
BPI director general Andrew Yeates believes UK adoption of the directive is now "the big issue" for the industry body.
He says lobbying to ensure the new rights of making available and communicating to the public are clearly set out within the UK law is absolutely vital.
"From the record industry point of view, these provisions are very key and particularly relevant to online ...