As part of US Ambassador Gary Locke’s Roundtable on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) together with major Chinese online video sites Youku, Sohu, iQiyi, and LeTV have unveiled a ‘Thank You’ video featuring nearly 100 of China’s leading actors and filmmakers. Heeding a call from the MPA, China’s film community […]
The US Commerce Department today released a comprehensive report – Intellectual Property and the US Economy: Industries in Focus – which finds that intellectual property (IP)-intensive industries support at least 40 million jobs and contribute more than $5 trillion dollars to, or 34.8 per cent of, US gross domestic product (GDP). “This first of its […]
Following comments made by his predecessor Kim Williams that coverage of an alleged pay-TV piracy in The Australian Financial Review, was “shameful” and “nothing more than an exercise in tar and feathering,” current Foxtel chief executive Richard Freudenstein has described the publication’s reports on the pay-TV market “one of the poorest pieces of journalism I’ve […]
The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) the coalition representing US content creators and leading ISPs, has appointed longtime technology, consumer protection and copyright expert, Jill Lesser, as its Executive Director. In addition the group has announced the members of its consumer-focused Advisory Board and an agreement with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) to implement an […]
Kim Williams, the former CEO of Foxtel, has added to the robust rebuttals of allegations in various publications worldwide that companies associated with News Corporation were involved in piracy, undermining pay-TV industry competitors. Writing to The Australian Financial Review, which made the allegations March 28, Williams describes the coverage as “shameful” and calls on the […]
NDS executives are not at all happy at the way events are unfolding. They are especially dismayed over negative implications in the London Independent newspaper concerning a £2,000 donation made 12 years ago to Surrey police to help fund a local ‘crimestoppers’ campaign has been misconstrued. NDS is demanding a full and unequivocal retraction from […]
Rupert Murdoch has hit back at reports that a News Corporation subsidiary was allegedly involved in piracy, undermining competitors within the nascent Australian pay-TV industry. The News Corp chief has used Twitter, accusing rival publications of “lies and libels” after the Australian Financial Review reported that Operational Security, established within News subsidiary NDS in the […]
Richard Hooper –a former Deputy Chairman of Ofcom – has published his diagnostic report on how fit for purpose is copyright licensing for the digital age. Hooper was appointed by Business Secretary Vince Cable to lead an independent feasibility study into a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) on 22 November. The report is based evidence collected […]
The UK High Court has ordered O2 to hand over the personal details of more than 9,000 O2 broadband subscribers to Golden Eye International and the adult programme producer Ben Dover Productions. Ben Dover is a pseudonym of Lindsay Honey, a British performer, director and producer of pornography, who set up Golden Eye International in […]
Universal Pictures UK and the Industry Trust for IP Awareness have joined forces to launch a high-impact film trailer designed to inspire greater respect for copyright and the value of film and TV content. The special trailer, produced by Universal Pictures, uses content from Universal’s 2012 blockbuster release, Battleship, and shows the range and intensity […]