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MMF Submission to the Hargreaves Feasibility Study

14 February 2012

The Government launched the Hargreaves review into Intellectual Property last year and the final report made 10 recommendations for reform. The most important of these concerned the creation of the Digital Copyright Exchange for which, in itself, there was a separate review. The Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study is being run by Richard Hooper and you can read his request for submissions here.

MMF and FAC have responded and our submission can be accessed here: MMF_FAC-Hooper-final-submission

Anything that makes licensing easier, simpler and faster is to be welcomed as it will grow the market to all our benefit.

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