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Publishers must get used to a “permanent, never-ending requirement” to keep simplifying copyright licensing rather than imagining it is a one-off job, Richard Hooper told LBF yesterday (16th April), at the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture.
Hooper, chair of the Copyright Hub Launch Group, said that the widely drawn educational exception to copyright law which came out of the Hargreaves Review could have been avoided “if educational licensing had got its act together earlier” with rights aggregation and one-stop shops.
The simplification of copyright licensing was not a one-off labour, Hooper warned, but would need to be continuously exercised as new technologies continue to disrupt the established order.
He added: “Streamlining copyright licensing will be like modernisation or management re-engineering or cost reduction, a permanent never-ending requirement of the copyright creative industries . . . I fear that the winds of change from the internet and the digital world have barely begun to blow.”