Changes to copyright law are looming - see Copyright at stake.

There are also proposals to reduce funding for Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to authors whose books are borrowed from libraries - see last issue - and our main speaker will be novelist and biographer Maureen Duffy, who practically invented PLR with the late Brigid Brophy in the 1970s. We also hope to discuss possible levies on copying media, such as CD-Rs and memory sticks.

We will also hear from NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear and hope to hear John McDonnell MP (Lab, Hayes and Harlington), chair of the NUJ Parliamentary Group. Speaking at the recent NUJ annual conference, John denounced Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's efforts to block EU legislation on protection of vulnerable workers from being made law in the UK, and declared his belief that these days "the role of Parliament is a roof to climb to put a banner up on it."

Our formal host for the evening is David Drew MP, another member of the NUJ PG - thanks to him for stepping in at short notice.

Turn up at the Visitor's Entrance in St Stephen's Green at 6.45pm at the latest to clear security formalities, and ask for the Committee Room booked by David Drew for the NUJ Parliamentary Group. And don't chain your bike to railings near Parliament.

Sorting out your taxes ahead of the faster-than-you'd-expected approach of the deadlines is the subject - back at our usual Friends House venue. Our speaker is Eric Longley, accountant to the stars, and to some LFB members, who will impart sound advice with a sense of humour.

There's an outside chance we'll have a "friendly" tax advisor from HM Revenue and Customs to speak as well. The deadline for the paper version of the 2007-2008 tax return is earlier this year.

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