More copyright exploration from the main stage. This time an intelligent and textured speech from David Lammy:

We are faced with an uncomfortable reality. Unlawful copying had caused crisis in the music industry and the film and publishing worlds are worrying that they are next.

Technology has shifted the balance of power between publishers and consumers. Consumers are changing the rules as a result.

Digital means, quick, cheap and accurate copies at a marginal cost. The internet enables you to help yourself to others' copies anonymously.

Consumers are grabbing potential, building a digital culture based on access. Industry and government are sleep walking into it.

An effective IP regime has an important part to play in the future but content is international. Solutions must be international.

The mechanisms which copyright operate are too complex. The systems must keep evolving to stay relevant.

The rights clearance system is too lengthy, complex and expensive. We need quicker mechanisms for decisions.

Consumers don't know the rules either: Can a parent copy their own CD in case their child breaks it? Can a musician sample tracks for playing at a private party at home? 

We need a world where rights holders will be paid for their efforts. Freedom to access material is not the same as access for free.

He finished with a Tolstoy quote: "everyone thinks of changing the world but noone thinks of changing themselves". Tomorrow Peter Mandelson will apparently announce a new copyright policy at C&binet.