In the next episode of 'Commons Committee...'

I am currently reading Hansard. This is because I am writing an article about recent developments in the law that might affect 3D printing, and I want to understand the process by which HMG went about repealing s.52 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. (Short version: this provided a useful get-out if you wanted to use copyright artwork that had been mass-reproduced by applied to a product - printing didn't count - more than 25 years ago.)

I found myself looking at the transcript of the 15th meeting of the Committee on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill. I suspect that after 14 such meetings the members were getting a little bored and it appears that the odd note of levity may have crept into proceedings...

Dramatis Personae:
Norman Lamb (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills)
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South, Labour)
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian, Labour)
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Labour)
Iain Wright (Hartlepool, Labour)


( On the preciseness of Hansard )

( Punctuation nit-picking )

( Musical tastes )

( A worrying preoccupation with 'Fifty Shades of Grey'] )