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.

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As published

254 Licensee under licence of right not to claim connection with design right owner.

(1) A person who has a licence in respect of a design by virtue of section 237 or 238 (licences of right) shall not, without the consent of the design right owner— (a) apply to goods which he is marketing, or proposes to market, in reliance on that licence a trade description indicating that he is the licensee of the design right owner, or (b) use any such trade description in an advertisement in relation to such goods. (2) A contravention of subsection (1) is actionable by the design right owner. (3) In this section “trade description”, the reference to applying a trade description to goods and “advertisement” have the same meaning as in the Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

Your change, as a redline

254 Licensee under licence of right not to claim connection with design right owner.

(1) A person who has a licence in respect of a design by virtue of section 237 or 238 (licences of right) shall not, without the consent of the design right owner— (a) apply to goods which he is marketing, or proposes to market, in reliance on that licence a trade description indicating that he is the licensee of the design right owner, or (b) use any such trade description in an advertisement in relation to such goods. (2) A contravention of subsection (1) is actionable by the design right owner. (3) In this section “trade description”, the reference to applying a trade description to goods and “advertisement” have the same meaning as in the Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

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.

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