Yesterday, after intense debate over the past couple of days in the House of Commons, the government introduced an amendment to the bill that removed Clause 43 altogether. The amendment was passed.

"The way is now open for photographers and other creatives to present new thinking enabling the legitimate use of our genuine orphan works for strictly defined non-commercial "cultural" purposes in a way that will satisfy the needs of the cultural sector, to prevent the future orphaning of our work, and to redress defects in current copyright law," says the campaign group Stop43.