I rise to agree in large measure with what the hon. Member for Ceredigion has said—it is the first time I have ever said that, so I have broken my duck.

The word “medium” is used in the narrow rather than the broad sense. Most people think that medium means a book, a film, a play or an online publication. It is made clear in clause 9 that

“‘medium’ means any medium of publication, including in particular any form of on line or off line publication”.

Therefore, the technical standards necessary to access a particular work in a digital medium will be as important as the provision of the material in the first place. Clause 6(2)(b) will require the person

“to deliver, with the copy of the work, a copy of any computer program and any information necessary in order to access the work”.

None the less, it is important that the onus for ensuring access to work is on the publisher. If, for example, someone complied with the law by still providing copies of The Times in microfiche form, but in a microfiche form that was completely different from that which is used by almost every library in the world, they would be deliberately seeking to subvert the meaning of the law. That is why it is important that the onus for ensuring access to work should be on the publisher rather than the library.