§ 21. Mr. Roy Jenkinsasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will consider amending the law under which publishers are required to supply free copies of all their publications to certain institutions.
§ The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Peter Thorneycroft)The hon. Member will be aware of the recommendations of the Copyright Committee on this subject, but I can give no promise of early amending legislation to deal with this part of its Report.
§ Mr. JenkinsAm I right in thinking that copies have to go to the British Museum and to the Library of Trinity College, Dublin? Is not that rather a curious anomaly? Could not something be said for sending copies to a library in Edinburgh or to the Library of the University of Wales?
§ Mr. ThorneycroftI think there is something to be said for that, but I understand that it is a controversial issue, which is dealt with at some length in the Copyright Report.