Seanad debates
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage
10:30 am
Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I was in the committee rooms before I came here. The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was also there. It seems the buck is being passed between the two Departments, and I cannot identify who has responsibility for this issue. The consultation was published in April 2017 and the copyright review committee has called for this since 2013. It is not difficult to sweep and the National Library of Ireland already has the ability to do it.
To clarify, Senator Norris asked about the new paragraph (c)(i), proposed in the amendment, which states that a work would be made available to the public either from a website with a domain name which relates to the State, that is, a .ie domain name, or which relates to a place within the State, such as a .org or a .comdomain name. My website is a .com website even though it is Irish. Therefore, it might not necessarily have to be a .ie domain name.
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