December 13, 2014 – In October this year Google started deranking pirate sites. In November UK prime minister David Cameron endorsed a report that says that Intellectual Property (IP) education should become a part of the curriculum in British schools. Much of this is a result of the work Mike Weatherley, who was till recently the Intellectual Property (IP) Adviser to David Cameron, has been doing. A bulk of Weatherley’s approach to tackling piracy is housed in three reports – Follow the Money, Search Engines and Piracy and recently Copyright Education and Piracy. The Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade displays in these some path-breaking ideas on fighting piracy in creative industries, a huge contributor to the UK economy. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar spoke to Weatherley on the sidelines of the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong recently. Edited excerpts.
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