Virgin Media could introduce strict anti piracy measures soon

UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has declared that the government will be accepting all ten recommendations made in the Hargreaves review, prompting one of the biggest shake-ups in UK intellectual property law in years."The...

An open letter has been sent to David Cameron and a number of his cronies urging them to urgently rethink a number of perilously outdated UK copyright laws. Penned by a group of tech industry organisations purporting to...

In a scathing attack on both Big Media copyright holders, and European law-makers, Ericsson's Director of Government and Industry Relations Rene Summer has called for new thinking in the way we consume digital media according to...

Mobile maker Ericsson's Director of Government and Industry Relations has called on European law-makers to change the way we are all allowed to consume digital content. Writing in the latest issue of Ericsson Business Review,...

The fact that both ACS:Law and MediaCAT have given up on chasing illegal filesharers could be seen as a victory for the hundreds of thousands who choose to download content without paying the copyright holders. As controversial...

Plans to introduce a law that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content have been condemned by ISPs, publishers, consumer groups, user rights groups...

The provision of appealing, legal online music services would be a more powerful incentive to stop illegal file-sharing than the proposed cutting off of internet access, copyright-infringing downloaders have told a think...

A report published by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) posits that around seven million UK citizens download illegal content worth as much as £120 billion a year. This sum, of course, as MCV UK...

Business and technology consultancy Detica today urges the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to shift the focus of its consultation process away from enforcement when considering legislative...

The European Commission says European media businesses should be able to offer creative content in a single legal environment. It has launched a consultation that calls for multi-territory licences and interoperable digital...

A pioneering citizen photojournalism start-up turned down the scoop of a lifetime when it declined to act as a sales agent for a private video of the Royal Family at home.Scoopt.com, a new agency which sells amateur-taken...