Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage

4:40 pm

Photo of James LawlessJames Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The proposal came from Dr. Eoin O'Dell of Trinity College Dublin. As somebody who came of age in the digital age, I remember being in Trinity College Dublin in the late 1990s when the web was a shadow of what it is now. It was a couple of blue screens and Linux logins, from which it is now worlds apart. It is important that we do not lose sight of that in the debate.