Gowers Review of Intellectual Property is published

As IMPACT and the IPKat report, The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property has just been published.

The IPKat blog has done a detailed post on the Review.

Some provisional observations of the IPKat include: 

• There is no proposal to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings from its existing term of 50 years
• Private copying should be permitted
• Directive 2001/29 on copyright in the information society should be amended to allow for an exception for creative, transformative or derivative works, within the parameters of the Berne Three Step Test
• Fast-track trade marks for small businesses

You can read the whole version here.