In a wide ranging speech that covered everything from the Hargreaves Review of IP to the importance of one stop licensing, the influential chairman of the culture select committee told a packed meeting at Millbank Media Centre that the traffic light scheme was an "interesting idea" that could work alongside the punitive DEA model.

The traffic light proposal, which was contained in the society's submission to the Hargreaves Review, was based on coloured icons appearing next to search results indicating ...