Clause 1 - Amendment of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988,
Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Bill
10:30 am
Mr Ian Stewart (Eccles, Labour)
I strongly support the Bill, as my hon. Friend knows, but authors' and publishers' associations are concerned about protecting their members' interests.
One concern relates to what is an approved body and on what basis it is held to be so. The associations are worried about the definition, and think that a body should qualify only if it has as its main object or one of its main objects the provision of accessible copies or other services for visually impaired persons. Is my hon. Friend happy that the wording of the new clause responds to those concerns?