Propose a change

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

116 Licensing schemes and licensing bodies.

(1) In this Part a “licensing scheme” means a scheme setting out— (a) the classes of case in which the operator of the scheme, or the person on whose behalf he acts, is willing to grant copyright licences, and (b) the terms on which licences would be granted in those classes of case; and for this purpose a “scheme” includes anything in the nature of a scheme, whether described as a scheme or as a tariff or by any other name. (2) In this Chapter a “licensing body” means (a) a society or other organisation which has as its main object, or one of its main objects, the negotiation or granting, either as owner or prospective owner of copyright or as agent for him, of copyright licences, and whose objects include the granting of licences covering works of more than one author , or, (b) any other organisation which is a collective management organisation as defined by regulation 2 of the Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016. (3) In this section “copyright licences” means licences to do, or authorise the doing of, any of the acts restricted by copyright. (4) References in this Chapter to licences or licensing schemes covering works of more than one author do not include licences or schemes covering only— (a) a single collective work or collective works of which the authors are the same, or (b) works made by, or by employees of or commissioned by, a single individual, firm, company or group of companies. For this purpose a group of companies means a holding company and its subsidiaries, within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006. (5) Schedule A1 confers powers to provide for the regulation of licensing bodies.

Your change, as a redline

116 Licensing schemes and licensing bodies.

(1) In this Part a “licensing scheme” means a scheme setting out— (a) the classes of case in which the operator of the scheme, or the person on whose behalf he acts, is willing to grant copyright licences, and (b) the terms on which licences would be granted in those classes of case; and for this purpose a “scheme” includes anything in the nature of a scheme, whether described as a scheme or as a tariff or by any other name. (2) In this Chapter a “licensing body” means (a) a society or other organisation which has as its main object, or one of its main objects, the negotiation or granting, either as owner or prospective owner of copyright or as agent for him, of copyright licences, and whose objects include the granting of licences covering works of more than one author , or, (b) any other organisation which is a collective management organisation as defined by regulation 2 of the Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016. (3) In this section “copyright licences” means licences to do, or authorise the doing of, any of the acts restricted by copyright. (4) References in this Chapter to licences or licensing schemes covering works of more than one author do not include licences or schemes covering only— (a) a single collective work or collective works of which the authors are the same, or (b) works made by, or by employees of or commissioned by, a single individual, firm, company or group of companies. For this purpose a group of companies means a holding company and its subsidiaries, within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006. (5) Schedule A1 confers powers to provide for the regulation of licensing bodies.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.

Sign in to file it

Think it through

Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

Questions to start with
Think it through
Legal information from the published text, not advice for your case. Check the sources. Find a law · What the register holds