After its announcement in May 2016, the multi-faceted UK Digital Economy Bill (‘Bill’) has progressed through Parliament and has recently been considered by MPs at the Public Bill Committee stage, during which various organisations have weighed in on the Bill’s proposals. Sue McLean, Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster, discusses what we have learnt about two of the measures within the Bill that have drawn significant attention - those relating to online copyright infringement and age verification for access to pornographic material - following the conclusion of the Committee stage.

The Bill was announced in May 2016 and had its ?rst reading in the House of Commons in July 2016. Timing-wise, this followed a slew of new digital single market (‘DSM’) proposals published by the EU Commission in June. And, of course, the Brexit referendum decision on 23 June 2016 called into question how those DSM proposals will affect the UK’s digital economy going forward.

Originally published in Digital Business Lawyer on December 14, 2016.