Government stumps up £150,000 to kick-start Hooper's Copyright Hub

Tom Pakinkis

The Government has released £150,000-worth of funding to help start a one-stop-shop online Copyright Hub, designed to make it easier for those looking to use music to get information about rights, ownership and copyright licences.

The move was announced today by Intellectual Property Minister Lord Younger.

The need for a web-based Hub geared towards simplifying the licensing process in Britain was laid out in Dr. Richard Hooper’s Government-commissioned Copyright Works report last year.

Hooper told Music Week after the report's ...

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