A pub supervisor in the north-west English city of Liverpool has been fined more than £22,000 (€30,000) for illegally showing BT Sport and Sky football matches following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Anthony Tynan, the designated premise supervisor at the Mariner, Whitefield Drive, Liverpool was found guilty on 30th July […]
WPP’s GroupM, the global media investment management company, has endorsed the Trustworthy Accountability Group’s (TAG) anti-piracy guidelines and a new requirement that its media partners either become or use TAG-certified providers of anti-piracy services to participate in GroupM’s Trusted Marketplaces. GroupM’s media investments on behalf of clients are approximately $106B (RECMA 2014); the company’s action […]
A man from Nottinghamshire in the UK Midlands has been arrested on suspicion of recording newly-released films at cinemas and posting the footage on the Internet. The 33-year-old was arrested, questioned and bailed pending further enquiries on Friday 18th September following a joint operation involving the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the Government Agency […]
Following its recent relaunch, legal online entertainment resource FindAnyFilm.com has welcomed HMV as the latest retailer to join the platform. According to Sylvia Wan, Digital Communications Manager, Industry Trust, FindAnyFilm remains the call to action on all of its anti-piracy consumer education activity, which means that ensuring the service is as comprehensive and representative as […]
Following his earlier announcement of an independent review of the BBC’s governance and regulation, UK Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has stressed that the Government Green Paper on the Corporation’s Charter Review should not be seen as an attempt to abolish the BBC. Delivering a keynote speech at the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention 2015, Whittingdale […]
The Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) – the UK trade body established to protect and represent the interests of the film and broadcasting industry against copyright and trademark infringements – have welcomed the jail term imposed on a 30 year old man from the city of Londonderry […]
A survey conducted by Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE has found that one third of Australians download, stream or watch pirated TV shows or movies online. In a follow-up to its 2014 Piracy Survey, CHOICE found the same answer again to the why: price and availability. The most frequent pirates are also the biggest consumers […]
Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), the Premises Licence Holder and Designated Premises Supervisor of sports bar LJ’s in the UK town of Aylesbury has been convicted and ordered to pay more than £6,000 (€8,185) in fines and costs for showing Sky Sports illegally in his premises. On August 20th […]
Fraudsters who illegally sold on access to Premier League football coverage have been jailed following a joint investigation by Surrey Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Simon Hopkins and Leon Passlow were sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on August 19th having earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud between January 2008 and […]
UK trade body the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has called for equal treatment in the eyes of the law for online and offline copyright offences in its formal response to the Intellectual Property Office’s consultation on the matter. However, the industry body warned that any such change in the law would be academic unless […]