Eighteen months after France implemented one of the world’s first working three-strikes anti-piracy systems, the agency says it has succeede… Read more »
UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more »
UK business secretary Vince Cable has appointed former Ofcom deputy chairman Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on establishing a Di… Read more »
Grassroots members and European parliamentarians in the UK’s coalition Liberal Democrat party want it to repeal the controversial online pir… Read more »
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will fire the starting gun on the race to turn Britain’s internet “not spots” into hot spots this week by allo… Read more »
Vince Cable, the business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to block illegal filesharing websites under the controversi… Read more »
David Cameron is to resist calls for international regulation of the web by Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit. The French president will tabl… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and large media owners have submitted opposing responses to the digitally-focused review of the UK’s intellectual proper… Read more »
Channel 4 confirmed on Thursday that it had submitted an expression of interest in the proposed national TV network that underpins Jeremy Hu… Read more »
UK media regulator Ofcom has been asked by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to review one part of anti-piracy law in the country’s Digital Econ… Read more »
A coalition of rights holders including the Premier League and trade bodies representing the music, film and TV industries is lining up to i… Read more »
Hardly anyone thinks culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has got his recipe right for UK local TV and IPTV channels. Panelists at Wednesday’s West… Read more »
Introducing a new localism to media, per a UK government action plan released Wednesday morning, may be a worthwhile aim – but culture secre… Read more »
The review commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) in to intellectual property in the digital age is due to b… Read more »
Didn’t we predict that the government’s new intellectual property review would see a replay of all the entrenched dogma that was flung in Di… Read more »
Freeview should be used as an initial “transitional platform” to carry local TV services in a handful of areas, until they can flourish all… Read more »
After this month having to abort sending warnings to 25,000 BT (NYSE: BT) broadband customers it suspected of illegally downloading its musi… Read more »
Three Wednesday announcements mean the UK’s approach to digital copyright infringement may be majorly halted and started over, despite month… Read more »
We said this back in July, and now the Lazard banker Jeremy Hunt commissioned to explore his local TV idea has now reported the same interim… Read more »
By Maggie Brown: The advisory panel examining ways to establish a new generation of local TV services is expected to deliver an interim repo… Read more »
By Helienne Lindvall: Last week I had tea with Lord Lucas in the House of Lords (I know Read more »
UK culture, media and sport secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid out departmental commitments including universal 2Mbps by 2015, a smaller Ofcom a… Read more »
UK royalties collector PRS For Music has resurrected the idea ISPs should pay for copyrighted content that their networks transfer without a… Read more »
Well, this is surreal – the new UK prime minister David Cameron doing an old-buddies routine with Facebook’s CEO, part of a UK exercise usin… Read more »
By Josh Halliday: BT (NYSE: BT) and TalkTalk want a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, saying the controversial new law could infri… Read more »
Here is last week’s debate at the Frontline Club on the Digital Economy Act, including Lord Puttnam, Conservative peer Lord Lucas, BPI publi… Read more »
New Conservative culture secretary used a speech at London’s Hospital Club to make these policy commitments…
– Fastest broadband in Euro… Read more »
All those angry digital liberties campaigners? They shouldn’t get their hopes up too much about the Digital Economy Act under a new governme… Read more »
Wales is getting a new digital director and a new-look investment arm for creative multimedia projects.
They were two recommendations of a… Read more »
– Irish piracy: So much for lengthy legislation. The informal graduated-response scheme operated in Ireland, after Eircom agreed to music l… Read more »
The likelihood of proposed independently-funded multiplatform news consortia (IFNCs) coming to fruition may have been dealt a blow by the me… Read more »
Ofcom is only just starting to draw up the code regulating how ISPs should warn copyright-infringing subscribers, but the government has alr… Read more »
I chatted with BBC Radio 5live and American Public Media’s Future Tense show this week about Twitter’s new ad model and the Digital Economy… Read more »
Parliament may have put the Digital Economy Bill to bed as it entered election mode, but now the media regulator is left to implement its P2… Read more »
The bill may have received Royal Assent, but the most vocal ISP opponent of its piracy measures says it’s not a done deal just yet…
“Talk… Read more »
The UK government’s controversial Digital Economy Bill was voted for by a majority of House Of Commons MPs Wednesday night – giving music la… Read more »
