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MPAA welcomes trade promotion vote

MPAA Chairman and CEO Senator Chris Dodd has welcomed the passage of trade promotion authority – legislation that defines US negotiating objectives and priorities for trade – agreement in the Senate. “We are very pleased with the Senate’s vote to advance trade promotion authority (TPA). The American motion picture industry relies heavily on trade with […]

May 26, 2015By Colin Mann

Content thieves place Internet users at risk

Content thieves are making millions from malicious advertising on sites sharing stolen movies and television shows while placing Internet users at increasing risk, according to new findings from Internet safety education body Digital Citizens Alliance and strategic advisory firm MediaLink. The report found that the largest content theft sites generated more than $200 million dollars […]

May 19, 2015By Colin Mann

Cameron’s former IP advisor joins MPLC

Former British MP and Intellectual Property Rights Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron, Mike Weatherley, has re-joined the Motion Picture Licensing Company (international), Ltd. (MPLC) as Vice Chairman and will join the MPLC parent company, Motion Picture Licensing  Corporation in Los Angeles as Executive Vice President and will be a Director of both companies. He […]

May 14, 2015By Colin Mann

Videology, White Ops combat online video ad fraud

Videology, the video advertising technology platforms, and White Ops, a pioneer in online ad fraud detection, have partnered to combat bots and other non-human activity in online video at scale. This announcement is the result of each company’s efforts against the global botnet scourge first begun by the two companies in early 2014. The Videology […]

May 14, 2015

US creatives call for end of Copyright Alert System

The Internet Security Task Force – a newly formed group of small businesses banding together to protect content creators and consumers from the negative effects of piracy – has called for an end to the Copyright Alert System, based on new evidence that shows the anti-piracy initiative is not only ineffective but actually makes matters […]

May 13, 2015By Colin Mann

UK creatives welcome Cabinet appointments

The UK’s Creative Coalition Campaign (CCC) – a network of creators and makers which seeks to represent the rights of the creative sector and press for effective measures to combat online copyright infringement – has welcomed the appointments of John Whittingdale as Culture Secretary and Sajid Javid as Business Secretary and calls on them to […]

May 12, 2015By Colin Mann

Netflix combats illegal streaming

A study by Sandvine shows a preference for legal streaming over piracy. “People are shifting their activities and they’ve certainly embraced streaming video,” says Dan Deeth, head of media at Sandvine, a company that tracks home Internet usage. According to its latest report,

May 8, 2015

TV2U forms strategic alliance to tackle piracy in China

TV2U, the content enabler and technology provider, today announced a strategic alliance with Stereoscope Cloud and Vector International to launch its TARA TV service into China. TV2U’s technology will be used by the Chinese Government to launch a state-owned video streaming service in a bid to significantly reduce piracy within the region. TV2U will lead […]

May 6, 2015

Boxing match ‘pirated’ on Periscope

Rights-holders to the May 3rd boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have forced recordings of the bout to be removed from the video streaming app Periscope. But US TV networks HBO and Showtime would have unquestionably been too late to prevent some users from watching the action live. The firms had charged the […]

May 5, 2015

Advertising profits fuel copyright infringing websites

Findings from online rights protection firm Incopro indicate that 88 per cent of the most popular websites used to obtain infringing copyright content use advertising as a key source of funding. The report – Revenue sources for websites making available copyright content without consent in the EU – analysed the top 250 websites used in […]

May 5, 2015By Colin Mann