There’s plenty of discussion in the British music industry about the government’s announcement yesterday of its plans for copyright reform. They include the anticipated launch of a digital...
May 23rd, 2012 by Stuart Dredge
Sweden is justifiably held up as a poster-market for digital music, thanks partly to the popularity of streaming music services like Spotify there, and also to the country's IPRED anti-piracy legislation...
April 16th, 2012 by Music Ally
Google's complicated relationship with the entertainment industries may not be helped by an interview given by co-founder Sergey Brin to The Guardian, in which he warns that by lobbying for anti-piracy...
April 5th, 2012 by Music Ally
Spain's new Comisión de Propiedad Intelectual body, created as part of the recent Sinde anti-piracy legislation, has revealed it received 292 complaints in its first month.
February 16th, 2012 by Music Ally
Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson was one of the prominent critics of the SOPA and PIPA legislation in the US, arguing that it could have hugely harmful effects for the kind of tech startups his company...
December 15th, 2011 by Music Ally
Yesterday, the UK government launched its consultation on proposals to modernise the copyright system, following recommendations in the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth earlier this...
October 25th, 2011 by Music Ally
Well, obviously. But Bieber has become one of the flashpoints in a debate in the US about new legislation that could make unauthorised web streaming of copyright work a felony offence, punished by jail...
September 4th, 2009 by Music Ally
Three music industry bodies representing the creative side of the business have hit back at the UK government's plans to toughen up its plans to clamp down on online piracy.
July 30th, 2009 by Music Ally
Forget copyright infringement: the marvellously-named US politician Edolphus Towns has demanded an investigation into P2P firms like Lime Wire on security grounds, following reports of people accessing...
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