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Vince Cable Excerpts
Thursday 4th July 2019

(4 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vince Cable Portrait  Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham) (LD)
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T5. Ministers are aware of the nervousness about Brexit in the creative industries. What assurances can they give that the copyright protections in the European directive will be fully preserved?

Margot James Portrait The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries (Margot James)
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We applauded the decision to pass the EU copyright directive, and I have met with bodies from the creative industries to discuss how best to implement it in the UK. That will take a certain amount of time, but we will be looking to protect the intellectual property and artistic creations of our designers and this country’s brilliant creative industries.