Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Debate between Lord Maxton and Lord Henley

Wednesday 6th February 2019 Lords Chamber

[Lord Maxton (Lab)]

My Lords, I rise briefly just to make a point to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde. On intellectual property, the Minister did not say one single word about the changing technologies that greatly affect the way in which intellectual property is seen. I have not read, or even picked up, a book for the last two years—because I read on a Kindle. What about that sort of change?

[Lord Henley]

My Lords, some of us still read books, and some of us still read letters. I shall not follow up the Scottish exchanges that have just taken place; I shall start with the letter referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson—the letter that I sent, I think, on 21 January. The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, described it as “extensive”; the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, said that it was eight pages long. What I have in front of me is six and a half pages long, so I just want to be clear that we are all talking about the same letter. I see that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and I are going to count.

Phone Hacking

Debate between Lord Maxton and Lord Henley

Tuesday 6th December 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Maxton]

My Lords, Maxton is the name. Why are this Government quite happy, as is Parliament and as previous Governments have been, to regulate television, radio and even the internet but are not prepared to undertake the statutory regulation of the print media?

[Lord Henley]

My Lords, I repeat what I said earlier: we will consider the results of this report and make the appropriate response at that stage.