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Publishing in the knowledge economy
Issues for competitiveness
Public sector information
• Action point 31 (Section 17.2.2)
Government to implement interoperable
standards on government content.
• Action point 34 (Section 17.2.2)
Publishers should actively support and
government ensure the extension and
improvement of the Information Asset Register
to constitute a comprehensive resource
discovery service usable by the industry.
Regulation and copyright protection
• Action point 19 (Section 17.2.3)
Government should maintain the UK’s strong
legal protection of publishers’ intellectual
property rights over all content and encourage
UK and international enforcement schemes for
the worldwide protection of content (including
the self-regulatory remedial system for digital
content) covering the “take down” and “put
back” schemes.
• Action point 20 (Section 17.2.8)
Government to commit at both national and EU
level to consistent and light regulation of new
platforms in relation to:
– Content and liability (libel, obscenity, etc.)
– Privacy and data protection.
18.2.3 Desirable actions
Profile
• Action point 4 (Section 15.4)
The industry should undertake market research
to understand how it is perceived by end
customers, government and other industries.
This should focus on determining what the
current perception of the industry is by these
groups and which particular expertise of the
publishing industry can be targeted to which
groups and developing a plan for increasing
awareness among these groups.
Supply chain
• Action point 10 (Section 16.3)
Relevant industry sectors to lobby for carefully
managed introduction of competition in mail
services to meet cost/efficiency goals without
threatening universal delivery.
• Action point 14 (Section 16.4)
Supermarkets must include magazines,
newspapers and books in the supermarket
code. This code also needs to be made
more robust.
• Action point 15 (Section 16.4)
Build on existing initiatives in book supply chain
arising from the report ‘Unlocking the Supply
Chain’s Hidden Prize’ – use this opportunity to
inject fresh momentum.
Digital archive
• Action point 22 (Section 17.2.5)
In order for the UK to protect access to
important research material and to ensure that
small and not-for-profit publishers are not
unfairly disadvantaged, the archiving
of digital research should be organised at a
national level by government. A content
repository together with access rights should be
created by government and industry for use by
national academic and research institutions.
Copyright licensing
• Action point 25 (Section 16.1)
In order to provide a simple way for customers
to use content legally, UKPM should explore
the possible creation of a single body to issue
blanket licences.
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