Trade welcomes scrapping of ‘catastrophic’ plans to change IP rules post-Brexit

NewsMay 15, 2025by Matilda Battersby

Barbara Hayes

Proposed changes to the UK’s intellectual property (IP) framework post-Brexit that might have had a “catastrophic impact” on authors and publishers have been scrapped.

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