By Colette Brady

The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (the “Department”) has published the Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 (the “Bill”) which seeks to make a number of amendments to the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (the “Copyright Act”).

The Bill takes account of some of the recommendations made in the ‘Modernising Copyright’ report issued by the Copyright Review Committee in October 2013 and also certain exceptions introduced by the Infosoc Directive…