The British Library’s Chief Executive Lynne Brindley has chaired a significant debate about Intellectual Property in the digital age and called for the IP debate to move beyond music to include society, culture and the economy. An audience of artists, creative writers and scientists debated IP issues with the panel members that included the best-selling author Tracy Chevalier, Dr Tim Hubbard of the Sanger Institute and Adam Afriyie MP, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Affirming the British Library’s stance Lynne Brindley told the invited audience: “We believe at the British Library that the debate on intellectual property is too heavily focussed on teenagers, music and the consumer industries. It is important to realise that many areas of our society, culture and economy are affected by IPRs and often policy in one area has an impact on another. IPR is a complex system of checks, balances and interdependencies. IPR affects, to name just a few areas medicine, pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, the humanities, not to mention of course our culture - the list could go on and on.”
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