ABSTRACT
In 1983 a Green Paper Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation (Cmnd 9117) was published advocating major changes in the British intellectual property system. Many of its proposals were met with hostility and it was thought to be a rather hastily put together paper for discussion. After the typescript for the present book was completed the British Government’s long-awaited White Paper on Intellectual Property and Innovation (Cmnd 9712) was at last published, responding to the Green Paper on a number of points and certainly not accepting all of its recommendations. This makes a number of interesting new proposals directed at the reform of copyright and its related rights in the field of entertainment and music which will not be looked at here, but some of the most important new proposals for reforms and rejections of calls for reforms in the technical and design field may be outlined.
