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• 17 Jan 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • make them collect data on serious and repeated infringers of copyright law, which would then be made available to music companies or other rights-holders who can produce a court order for them to be handed over
  • creation of a body called the Rights Agency to be paid for by a small levy from the internet service providers and rights-holding organisations, these measures would form the spine of a new code of conduct for the internet industry
• 16 Jan 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

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  James
  • Ministers intend to pass regulations on internet piracy requiring service providers to tell customers they suspect of illegally downloading films and music that they are breaking the law
  • It would also make them collect data on serious and repeated infringers of copyright law
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  • • which would then be made available to music companies or other rights-holders who can produce a court order for them to be handed over
    • creation of a body called the Rights Agency to be paid for by a small levy from the internet service providers
    • The draft report says the code would be overseen by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, according to people who have read it.
    • internet and music industries have failed to sort out the problems of illegal downloading between them, and the government sees this as its preferred solution.
    • Last July, the British Phonographic Industry and the UK’s largest broadband providers signed a memorandum of understanding to write thousands of educational letters to alleged online song-swappers, but only after the government forced co-operation.

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