Very good to see that the Copyright Hub, the new database designed to simplify copyright licensing which Richard Hooper and Ros Lynch have been working on with the co-operation of all the creative industries and rights holders, is up and running at

www.copyrighthub.co.uk

What a contrast to the way the IPO has gone about adding new exceptions to copyright! Rather than rush into agreeing the new exceptions-for parody, education etc we should see how the Hub works in obviating the need for new exceptions.