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It’s emerged that the BPI was rapped by UK government minister Baroness Vadera on the day its recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the government and various labels, ISPs and film industry bodies. (more…)

The Telegraph has an interesting interview with Universal Music Group International boss Lucian Grainge, which appears to say he disagrees with the BPI’s desire for persistent file-sharers to have their broadband chopped. (more…)

A quiet news day in the UK has propelled news of a Memorandum of Understanding between the six biggest UK ISPs and the BPI and brokered by the UK Government right to the top of the news agenda. (more…)

UK record labels trade body the BPI has announced a new deal to give indie labels cheaper access to chart data from The Official Charts Company. Due to be unveiled at the BPI AGM on Wednesday, they’ll be ad-hoc reports costing between £32 and £100 depending how much information you want. (more…)

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) CEO Geoff Taylor says that UK labels generated $242 million of revenues from non-sales sources last year - a figure that includes streaming, synchronisation licensing, merchandising and mobile content. Indeed, more than 11% of labels” income now comes from these sources, while revenues from ad-funded music services like We7 and Yahoo Music rose 56% in 2007. Meanwhile, more than 85% of sales of Top 20 singles in the UK are now digital.

Yesterday we wrote about the BPI teaming up with Virgin Media in an effort to clamp down on illegal file sharing by sending informative letters out.  Well, we have copies of each of them here .

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Earlier this year, the BPI and UK ISP Virgin Media got into a spat over whether they’d agreed some kind of deal to implement a three-strikes anti-piracy policy.  They are still yet to do that, but they have reached a different deal to run an education campaign for illegal music-sharers. In short, the BPI will supply IP addresses to Virgin Media of users, who’ll then receive two informative letters one from the BPI and one from Virgin Media. (more…)