Below are downloadable copies of the Society's (and other organisations') responses to recent Government consultations, Select Committee inquiries and other papers.
CMS Enquiry into support for the Creative Economy
CMS Select Committee Inquiry into Library Closures
Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) Feasibility Study
Draft Defamation Bill
Submissions
- Libel Reform submission
- Publishers Association submission
- Booksellers Association submission
- The Government's response
- The Society of Authors' response
Defamation Bill 2012-13
EC Investigation into Publishers' Agency Pricing
Education Select Committee Inquiry into the Administration of Examinations for 15-19 year olds in England
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (House of Lords Committee Stage)
The Value of the Publishing Industry (House of Lords Debtate, 6 February 2013)
Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth
- British Copyright Council submission
- Creators' Rights Alliance submission
- Publishers Association submission
- The Society of Authors' submission
IPO Consultation on Introducing a Small Claims Track into the Patents County Court
Office of Fair Trading Investigation into the proposed Amazon/TBD merger
- The Society of Authors' submission
- Click here to read an article about Amazon by Steve Johnson in The Author
PLR and volunteer-run libraries
- The Society of Authors' response to the DCMS planned transfer of PLR functions
- SoA letter to Louise Mensch MP, Select Committee on Libraries
- SoA submission to the DCMS consultation on its proposals to transfer responsibility for managing the PLR scheme to another public body
The Independent Henley Review of Cultural Education
- The Society of Authors' submission
- The Henley Review
- The Government's response
- Read the Guardian article: Henley review of cultural education backs arts in the national curriculum
The Independent Sieghart Review of E-Lending in Public Libraries in England