On the BBC's funding, he said there was "no easy solution" to how the BBC should be funded but described the current licence fee model as "regressive".
The report added that the next charter renewal negotiations "should not rush profound changes such as the abolition of the licence fee model".
Wheaton releases much of his own material under a creative commons licence, a model that allows for copying, sharing and modifying content.
Yet no market could offer access to so many recipes, free at the point of use because they can't recreate the licence fee model.
And who is going to choose?" Whittingdale said there was "no easy solution" to BBC funding but described the current licence fee model as "regressive", with its flat rate for all regardless of income.
We recommend that a fully-funded, public service focused BBC should be given a new 10-year charter in order to concentrate on these responsibilities with funding security through a licence fee model.
Speaking in support of the BBC's licence fee model, Mr Marr said he would be concerned if the broadcaster were to be dependent on revenue that came directly from Government.
"Having lived abroad, I know many people (expats and locals) who would pay to access the BBC abroad (iPlayer PPV access)." Iannucci spoke out on Twitter after he said in a London Evening Standard interview published on Monday that the licence fee model was being outmoded by the changing way people are watching television.
Tony Hall, the BBC director general, said on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that there was "broad agreement" that the licence fee model of funding the corporation could be reformed but that it had at least "10 years of life in it".
Let's be clear about what this means: that old licence-fee models have finite lifespans nearing their end; that some vital public service jobs will get minced in the maw; that the sheer incoherence of change is kicking away too many of the props of democracy; and that Britain, using solutions it has long since devised and understood, can find a way of restoring a little order.
