The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) arrested a 35-year-old man in the south England town of Maidenhead on November 17th on suspicion of copyright offences relating to an attempt to sell the Brotherhood movie online. The suspect has since been bailed until a date in January 2017. The arrest follows a […]
Australia’s Department of Communications and the Arts has released the results of the 2016 online copyright infringement survey, which show an overall decrease in the level of infringement in the past year largely because of the increase in the availability of online streaming. A fall in the proportion of Australian Internet users accessing unlawful content […]
Following successful prosecutions by intellectual property protection body FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) the Designated Premises Supervisors of the Miners Arms and The Old Crooked Clock, in the Northern UK city of Leeds have each been convicted and ordered to pay a combined total of more than £8,500 (€9,864) in fines and costs for showing […]
According to Mark Lichtenhein, Chairman, Sports Rights Owners Coalition, piracy has no natural frontiers, with increased piracy the potential outcome of EC attempts to introduce cross-country licensing under Digital Single Market proposals. Speaking at the European Content Protection Summit in London, Lichtenhein noted that the June referendum vote for the UK to leave the EU, […]
The Ukrainian cyberpolice have closed down one of the country’s major pirate websites, according to the National Police press service, with enforcement officers seizing the company’s servers. Local media reports suggest the site is Fs.to, which stopped operation overnight on November 15th. The police say that the illegal site inflicted several million hryvnias in damage […]
Platform, channel and content protection services provider Friend MTS is leading a delegation heading to India this week that will investigate the country’s escalating problem of digital piracy which costs the Indian film industry billions of dollars every year. India is not only the biggest film producer in the world making between 1,500 and 2,000 […]
The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) – the UK body which represents the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment – has appointed James Duvall as the new Head of Insight for the organisation. Duvall will lead the BASE Insight function, which also encompasses insight responsibility for The Industry Trust for IP […]
UK intellectual property protection body FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) is expanding its intellectual property protection services to organisations outside the audio-visual industry. Recent changes in its funding model have created new opportunities for the organisation and now FACT’s expertise and technical knowledge are being extended to brands and businesses requiring support in protecting their […]
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office is calling for views on the European Commission’s draft legislation to modernise the European copyright framework. On 14 September 2016, the European Commission published draft legislation aimed at modernising the European copyright framework. This legislation includes: a draft Regulation on the exercise of copyright and related rights in certain online […]
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) – the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America – has obtained UK High Court Orders requiring the five major UK ISPs to block access to thirteen websites dedicated to making copyright infringing material available for free on a large scale. The blocks are set to go live […]