To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

(1) how many current members of the Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group have been commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office to provide paid research in the last three years;

(2) how many current members of the Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group work in a private sector business whose principal purpose is the production of copyright works.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) established four Research Expert Advisory Groups (EAGs), including a group focused on copyright, to provide commentary and peer review on all aspects of its research programme. Each EAG is made up of representatives from industry, academia and the user community who have expertise in developing and commenting on research methodologies and data. Members are voluntary and unpaid and were appointed on a personal basis.

The full membership for the Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group (CREAG) is:

Hasan Bakhshi—National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)

Adrian Brazier—Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Ian Christie—Birkbeck College London

Tony Clayton—Intellectual Property Office

Pippa Hall—Intellectual Property Office

David Humphries—Intellectual Property Office

Martin Kretschmer—CREATe (formerly Bournemouth University)

Nick Munn—Intellectual Property Office

Will Page—Spotify (formerly Performing Rights Society)

Tom Rivers—Broadcasters Representative

Christian Zimmerman—Design and Artists' Copyright Society

Charlotte Waelde—Exeter University

Saskia Walzel—Consumer Focus

Ben White—British Library.

Of these, Professor Martin Kretschmer, Director of the CREATe Research Centre, formerly Professor of Jurisprudence at Bournemouth University, was commissioned to produce independent research on Private Copying and Fair Compensation. The contract was let by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of a competitive procurement process. The IPO co-funded this work although the winning bidder was selected solely by the ESRC.

In addition, Professor Kretschmer has led Bournemouth University teams which have been commissioned to deliver research projects on Copyright, and the Regulation of Orphan Works and on Parody and Pastiche. Contracts for these research projects were let following a competitive tender evaluation process. Final reports will be published shortly, following peer review.