Speeches by Bryant.

“They do a multiplicity of different things on some of these sound stages—dubbing, for instance. Pinewood has the massive water tank that is in Bond movies and so on.”

“Copyright obviously works differently in all the different sectors that are covered by the creative industries, but you are absolutely right. Since Queen Anne in 1710 and then Dickens, we have had a very strong understanding of copyright in the UK. It is slightly different from the French understanding under the Napole…”

“Our aim is not to achieve that. There are several parts to the consultation, as you know. There is the text and data mining exception that everybody focuses on, and then opt-in, out-out, the rights reservation issue and the transparency issue. Then there is the other issue, which I think Dr Pavis gave evidence to you a…”

“Well, one possibility is we end up doing nothing but, as I said, that is not an optimal solution. We are trying to incentivise and engender a technical solution. I am not so sure that it is as impossible as some are suggesting. I went to the Daily Mail group last week and a lot of British newspaper houses have signed u…”

“It won’t just be us. It will be us working with everybody else. I suspect that this will be an ongoing process of debate and consultation.”

“No, I don’t think so, honestly. As you know, I am in two Departments, and I am meeting a lot of people on this subject. Feryal Clark and I have pretty much divided the labour, in the sense that she is mostly seeing the AI companies and I am mostly seeing the creative industries, but we have a couple of roundtables comi…”

“More than you expected. Can I just do my declaration of interest because I have to do that for the House?”

“Oh, sorry.”

“I have to declare it, because it is a requirement of the House that I declare anything that is a potential interest or might be perceived to be an interest by a reasonable member of the public. This is simply to say, I am not entering into making films myself, but two of my books have been optioned: one by Mother Pictu…”

“I thought it was interesting in the debate yesterday that the one thing that has come back to me most frequently from the creative industries, apart from discussions about artificial intelligence—which you might come on to later perhaps—has been in relation to access to finance, but it wasn’t much debated yesterday aft…”

“I am conscious that we have lost 124 cinemas in the last couple of years. I think we have something like 825 cinemas at the moment. While a lot of us watch movies and films on our mobile phones or on a tablet, or on a television at home, or wherever it may be, there is nothing that beats that experience of sitting in a…”

“I am going to call the fifth amendment at this point—not that we have a written constitution or an amendment to it. We are thinking about it. There are arguments in favour, there are arguments against, and there is a cost. We need to assess where we want to go on that.”

“I am not putting it on the table, and I have not taken it off the table.”

“There is no table to put it on.”

“There is another serious point. The fact that UK film and television qualifies as European content is a very important aspect of our future in this sector, and we certainly do not want to lose that. Anything that we can do to enhance and protect that is obviously in our interests.”

“I note that you think that, Dame Caroline.”

“The sector has said that to me as well.”

“We are conscious of it, and we are thinking about it.”

“What do you look like in pink? I guess that is the question.”

“Sure. The tax incentives—the tax credits, tax reliefs, which have been in place in various different forms over the years, not just in film and high-end television, but audiovisual as it is now termed, as well as in other sectors—are a really important part of our investment in the creative industries. Let’s go back on…”