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Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
Summary
The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property was an independent review of UK intellectual property (IP) focusing on UK copyright law that was published in December 2006. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown commissioned Andrew Gowers to lead the review in December 2005. The Review was published on 6 December 2006 as part of the Chancellor's annual pre-budget report. The review concludes that the UK's intellectual property system is fundamentally strong but made 54 recommendations for improvements.
1 - "Amend section 60(5) of the Patents Act 1977 to clarify the research exception to facilitate experimentation, innovation and education"
2 - "Enable educational provisions to cover distance learning and interactive whiteboards by 2008 by amending sections 35 and 36 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988"
3 - "The European Commission should retain the length of protection on sound recordings and performers’ rights at 50 years"
4 - "Policy makers should adopt the principle that the term and scope of protection for IP rights should not be altered retrospectively"
5 - The Patent Office "should undertake joint working with African patent offices from mid-2007, with the aim of:
helping them to take advantage of the flexibilities currently existing in the WTO/TRIPS architecture where appropriate; and
encouraging them to make positive use of IP rights through dissemination of information in patents"
6 - "Encourage the international community under the auspices of the WTO to review the TRIPS status of the least developed countries prior to 2016 and consider whether further extension for reaching TRIPS compliance would be appropriate"
7 - "Government should encourage WTO members to ratify the amendments to TRIPS to make importation of drugs easier and cheaper"
8 - "Introduce a limited private copying exception by 2008 for format-shifting for works published after the date that the law comes into effect. There should be no accompanying levies for consumers"
9 - "Allow private copying for research to cover all forms of content.
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