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Digital Economy Act to cost millions of pounds for ‘innocent’ ISPs

20 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The newly passed Digital Economy Act will cost at least £15m a year to Internet service providers. Those figures have been revealed from a Government consultation document. They just cover the estimated...

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Digital Economy Bill passes through Parliament in controversial ‘wash up’ process before anyone has a chance to say ‘cut off’

15 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons without much chance for Parliamentary debate with the aim of getting it on the statute books before the General Election - a process known...

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Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

8 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The operators of the Newzbin web site – which provided helpful tools to enable people to share unauthorised content such as films – infringed the copyright owners’ content in providing that service...

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French file-sharing on the rise despite a change in the law

29 March 2010 | Mark Weston

Illegal online file-sharing behaviour has increased in France by 3% since a law was passed in late 2009 (the "three-strikes law") which allowed persistent pirates to be thrown offline. A small-scale study...

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Entertainment value really hots up in on-going YouTube / Viacom spat

24 March 2010 | Mark Weston

The gloves have certainly come off in the legal spat between YouTube and Viacom. Viacom – the owner of masses of media and entertainment content – is suing the popular video-sharing web site in the...

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Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

22 March 2010 | Mark Weston

The growth in illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing on the Internet has a real impact on the European economy. There will be a loss of over one million jobs across Europe by 2015 and over £200bn due to the...

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More than 4 in 5 British Internet users have downloaded content from the web illegally

19 March 2010 | Mark Weston

More than four in five British Internet users have admitted to illegally downloading content from the Internet. Those are the findings of a survey of 1,600 people by discount web site, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk....

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Pink Floyd stops sales of single tracks online

12 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Pink Floyd, the rock band, has won a High Court order to stop its tracks being unbundled and sold as singles. It was seeking to stop the sale of individual tracks such as ‘The Wall’ online, so as to...

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Government clause in Digital Economy Bill to amend copyright laws without going through Parliament is defeated in House of Lords

8 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Government’s controversial clause in the Digital Economy Bill, in which it could have changed copyright laws without having to go through Parliament, has been struck out by the House of Lords. A...

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Change of stance from Government on cutting off peer-to-peer file-sharers under Digital Economy Bill?…

25 February 2010 | Mark Weston

There is some uncertainty whether the Government has shifted its position in the Digital Economy Bill and adopted a more lenient line in respect of illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers. If passed, the Digital...

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Latest news and views tagged copyright infringement

Digital Economy Act to cost millions of pounds for ‘innocent’ ISPs

Digital Economy Bill passes through Parliament in controversial ‘wash up’ process before anyone has a chance to say ‘cut off’

Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

French file-sharing on the rise despite a change in the law

Entertainment value really hots up in on-going YouTube / Viacom spat

Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

More than 4 in 5 British Internet users have downloaded content from the web illegally

Pink Floyd stops sales of single tracks online

Government clause in Digital Economy Bill to amend copyright laws without going through Parliament is defeated in House of Lords

Change of stance from Government on cutting off peer-to-peer file-sharers under Digital Economy Bill?…

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