Digital Economy Bill: Passed 189-47 With Piracy Measure Intact
Irate MPs passed a cut-down, sick-looking version of the Digital Economy Bill Wednesday night by 189 votes to 47 – lacking several key propo… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Govt Clicks ‘Undo’ On Site-Block Idea, Mandy Will Do It Himself
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What a mess. The government has rejected a controversial Digital Economy Bill clause that would force ISPs to block access to copyright-infr… Read more »
Updated: Digital Economy Bill: Injunction Ping-Pong Over Website Blocking?
Update: The debate took place later on Monday. Read our full story…
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Digital Economy Bill: Loggerheads Are Here Again Thanks To New Clause
If you thought consensus had broken out over how ISPs should tackle illegal downloading, think again. Though many service providers were now… Read more »
Lords Copyright Change ‘Could Block YouTube’
By Bobbie Johnson: One of the most contentious parts of the controversial digital economy bill was voted down by the House of Lords last nig… Read more »
Lord Carter Joins Alcatel Lucent
By Maggie Brown: Lord Stephen Carter, who resigned from the government last summer after delivering his Digital Britain report and white pap… Read more »
No, Downing Street Isn’t Backtracking On Freeloading Plans
In perhaps the least bullying memo to come out of Downing Street this week, Number10.gov.uk has responded to an anti-Digital Economy Bill e-… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Govt Rejects Format-Shifting, Right-To-Link Requests
The UK government politely refused some of the boldest proposed late changes to the Digital Economy Bill, as the House Of Lords finally fini… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want Rights To Link, Format-Shift
Conservative Lord Ralph Lucas is using the Digital Economy Bill to wade in to the debate over whether aggregators can freely link to online… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Govt Survives Tories’ IFNC Downsizing Bid
As bidders for the independently-funded news consortia pitch their proposals in public meetings across the country, over in the House of Lor… Read more »
IFNCs: Bidders Waving Cit-J Pledge, But Timescale Looks Tight
Bidders for public money to finance independently-funded news consortia are falling over themselves to include “citizen journalism” in their… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: Bauer Digital Directors, Sion Simon MP, BBC Research
– Bauer Media: Is anyone left running online at the magazine/radio firm? Group digital MD Tony Kypreos left in November, leaving online sta… Read more »
Big Media (And The Unions) Back Neverending Piracy Power For Mandelson
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Seventeen entertainment and other organisations are urging parliamentarians to back a controversial part of the Digital Economy Bill that wo… Read more »
Research: Copyright Policy Is Borked Because Everyone’s Ignoring Physical Piracy
Five months after it was commissioned by a government advisory to research non-internet digital piracy, a consulting group has concluded – w… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Three Strikes And You… Pay?
ISP customers who have their service suspended after illegally downloading content may have to pay to restore their connection, under an ame… Read more »
Google Could Be Granted Copyright Immunity In UK Law
*Time* for Rupert Murdoch to mobilise the lobbyists? Search engines would be exempted in UK law from any liability for copyright infringemen… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Copyright Holders May Have To State Income Lost To Piracy
Copyright holders would have to tell ISPs how much financial damage they suffer from alleged digital copyright infringements, under an amend… Read more »
Music Biz Warns: Piracy Is Not Just About P2P
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You could shut down all the P2P BitTorrent trackers in the world but web pirates would still find other ways to share files directly with ea… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay Oppose Excessive Govt Power
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Policy chiefs from four of the web’s leading services say one point in the UK government’s high-profile Digital Economy Bill would give Lord… Read more »
Live Video: Digital Economy Bill House Of Lords Debate @ 3.30pm
Lord Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill to protect the UK’s creative industries’ IP (and more) gets a second reading in the House Of Lords at… Read more »
Digital Agencies Could Be Guaranteed Commercialisation Of Public Commissions
When public bodies contract private digital agencies to build projects, who should retain the rights for future exploitation? The National E… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: A Lyrical Smackdown To Mandelson
No, I hadn’t heard of him either, but “UK musician” Dan Bull earned himself an international audience of geeks when he rhymed a letter to… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill: ‘Parliament Must Stop Football Piracy Epidemic’
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Digital Economy Bill: Unanswered Questions And A Bundle Of Challenges
The UK government’s Digital Economy Bil was submitted in draft on Friday, containing graduated-response anti-piracy measures, the 2Mbps univ… Read more »
Digital Economy Bill May Struggle For Approval Before Election
The government has published a draft version of the Digital Economy Bill, the legislature based on the summer’s Digital Britain white paper.… Read more »
UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing
Lord Mandelson’s three-strikes proposal may have gobbled all the headlines. But a parallel package published Wednesday, aimed at liberalisin… Read more »
UK Confirms Plans To Warn, Throttle, Kick Illegal Downloaders
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The UK government, as expected, will write in to November’s upcoming Digital Economy Bill a French-style, graduated-response method of tackl… Read more »
@ C&binet: Vivendi Wants UK ‘Three-Strikes’, Mandelson Announcement Due Wednesday
Far be it for a Frenchman to tell Britons how to legislate their creative industries – but Vivendi’s CEO told those gathered at the governme… Read more »
@ C&binet: Creative Industries So Far Divided On The Way Ahead
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The UK government may have intended to create a consensus when its Department for Culture, Media & Sport invited creative industries bosses… Read more »
Euro-MPs Give Up Demand For Court Hearing Before ISP Disconnection
The EU Parliament has controversially dropped plans to force ISPs and content owners across the continent to seek a court ruling before disc… Read more »
Resistance Raining Down On Digital Britain’s IP Plans
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It was never going to be easy creating a policy framework to ensure the viability of Big Media’s digital media businesses – but now the scep… Read more »
MPs Urge Govt To Drop Disconnections, Blame Entertainment Business
Digital Britain may already have been published back in June and the consultation on Mandelson’s proposed changes may already have closed, b… Read more »
English Primary School Pupils Taught Not To Download Music Illegally
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English primary schoolchildren could get lessons from the music industry on why not to download music illegally. Ruth Katz, a former content… Read more »
Sky Agrees To Disconnect Pirates, Says Rightsholders Should Pay
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is going against other leading ISPs by supporting the government’s proposal to add account suspensions to a list of “techn… Read more »
