THE PATENT OFFICE: Patent Office appoints new Co Copyright Director.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 December 1999-THE PATENT OFFICE: Patent Office appoints new Copyright Director (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:131299 The UK Patent Office has appointed Anthony Murphy as the new Director of Copyright. Mr Murphy will play a key role in the new forum the government has asked the Patent Office to create to address the issue of counterfeiting which, according to its own estimates, costs British industry GBP6 billion a year.

Copyright is used to protect creative works including novels, plays, music, films and television programmes, paintings, sculptures, technical drawings and manuals, architecture, newspaper articles and even computer software programmes. Mr Murphy lists his top priorities as the effective enforcement of copyright...