{"id":71975,"date":"2016-07-05T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f6f1455a67bda26b4e8e30370fb0ac5c"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:52:00","slug":"news-story-digital-economy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71975","title":{"rendered":"News story: Digital Economy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today sees the introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/consumer-interests-at-heart-of-digital-economy-bill\">Digital Economy Bill<\/a> to Parliament. The Bill forms part of the government\u2019s ambition for the UK to be the most digital nation in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Neville Rolfe, Minister for Intellectual Property, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am very pleased that the Digital Economy Bill has been introduced today. It includes a number of major intellectual property measures that will help boost our creative industries and protect their hard work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This government is beginning to deliver on its manifesto commitment to make the UK the best place in Europe to set up a business, innovate and, patent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Digital Economy Bill enables everyone to have the right to fast broadband. Automatic compensation for consumers when telecoms suppliers don\u2019t deliver as promised. Tougher penalties for nuisance callers.<\/p>\n<p>The intellectual property elements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing the sentencing options for people who infringe copyright laws online. Bringing sentences into line with the current penalties available for \u201cphysical infringement\u201d<\/li>\n<li>enabling registered design owners to give notice of their rights more cheaply and flexibly. By allowing businesses to mark their designs with web addresses to show the rights they hold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government introduces the Digital Economy Bill as part of its ambition for the UK to be the most digital nation in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}