The Department of Culture, Media and Sport helps to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain abroad. They protect and promote our cultural and artistic heritage and help businesses and communities to grow by investing in innovation and highlighting Britain as a fantastic place to visit. They help to give the UK a unique advantage on the global stage, striving for economic success.

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has appointed the following key Ministers The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan, MP Secretary of State, Nigel Adams MP, Minister of State for DCMS, Rt Hon Rebecca Pow, MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, Rt. Hon Matt Warman, MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Digital and Broadband and Baroness Barran, MBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Civil Society and DCMS Lords Minister.

Dids Macdonald OBE., Anti Copying in Design (ACID) commenting on the new team said, “It is important that the intellectual property underpinning one of the UK’s most valuable assets, the creative industries, is promoted, protected and supported in the UK and to achieve growth in international deals going forward and I hope that this will be one of the new DCMS team’s priorities.”

DCMS’ role in intellectual property is mainly through the department’s work as a champion for culture and media. The Creative Industries Minister sits in the department, whose work it is to enhance growth for creative businesses which includes enabling businesses to value and protect their intellectual property.

DCMS is responsible for the Creative Industries Sector Deal alongside the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), as well as the Digital Charter. This led to the roundtables between rights holders and online platforms to develop codes of practice with which to reduce online infringement in the UK. The Department is also working on the Online Harms White Paper.