Speeches by Bryant.

“Right. Yes, we are open to looking at it. We are working through how the specifics would work. I do not want to create an overly burdensome system and create an expectation that cannot be met.”

“The one specific that we have already agreed on is shorter projects. They will not have to be for a year. That will start in August of this year. We are still working on elements around portability, which is one of the key things for the creative industries. All the creative industries have been asking for it. It is ve…”

“It seems obvious to me that you have to have a portable and flexible system to be able to deliver a proper apprenticeship scheme in this sector.”

“Yes, that is one of the things that the DFE is looking at.”

“That is a matter for the DFE, I am afraid.”

“I know that we are doing film and high-end television now, but we are also looking at this in relation to music. Are the exams that people sit at school are really the right kind of exams for actually being able to perform and make a living out of playing the guitar, for instance? All those elements of whether we are t…”

“We have been very keen from day one of the new Government to have DCMS work very closely with the Department for Education. When we had a creative industries event in a growth summit in Gateshead a couple of weeks ago, it was good that we had a DFE Minister there, Catherine McKinnell. We have weekly conversations with …”

“It is also partly about the BBC, because it has its own archive and is required to have one. We need to bind them into those conversations as well. This technology has changed so dramatically in such a short time. I remember when I worked at the BBC in Brussels we were showing BBC TV, I think it was “Walking with Dinos…”

“I am not sure that it is for Government to address. I think it is primarily for the industry to address, and I am having those conversations with the distributors and the industry.”

“I will give it four stars out of five, and I think it has transformed the—as I said, years ago everybody just left it all to the BBC and thought that everybody else would float along and get on, and when innovations came along, they would somehow by osmosis manage to absorb it into their systems. Then everybody realise…”

“There is a whole series of things that are not specific to DCMS but apply across every sector. I have already referred to the issues that we have with freelancers and the fact that it is a very freelance-heavy industry. Some of the problems that we have had in the last 12 to 18 months have related to the strike in the …”

“Well, we could. We have been thinking about ways in which we could do that. It is not as simple as it might seem. I think I read in one of the submissions that you have had that there was a suggestion that the tax credits could be only applied to companies that signed up. We are looking through the legal niceties of al…”

“One of the main things—I think that the independent film tax credit will help with this—is that we need to make sure that we are making British content as well. Secondly, we need to make sure that British content can be exported well around the world so that it makes money. Thirdly, we need to have strong public servic…”

“I would love to make Alastair answer that question, but he is smiling at me and saying it is my job. I think it is still a political football, but the BBC is one of the greatest cultural institutions the world has. It is renowned around the world and sometimes given credit for things that it has not even made because t…”

“The BFI gets income from itself, from showing films and stuff, and it gets income from grant in aid and the lottery. That mixture renders it £157 million a year or something like that. We will write to you and say if I have that figure wrong.”

“£127 million. The BFI, as I heard earlier, was asking for more money and a lot of people are asking the Department for more money. I fully understand that, and I have to keep saying to everybody it is a very straitened set of financial circumstances. If we were to restructure the good causes from the lottery, and there…”

“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.”