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Minogue’s Ex Sues UK Newspapers In France: Web Took Breach Over Borders - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 09:12 AM PST

Kylie Minogue’s ex just keeps on setting legal precedents. A French court has ordered two UK newspapers to pay fines for breaking privacy law in France - because they publish…

BBC.co.uk Review: Auntie Accepts Inadequacy, Disputes Overspend - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 05:15 AM PST

The BBC says it “accepts” all-out criticism from its regulatory trust, which found BBC.co.uk overspent by £36 million in 2007/08 and was dogged by ineffective management and editorial oversight. In…

BBC.co.uk Overspent By £36 Million, ‘Ineffective’ Bosses Must Change, Investment Frozen - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 03:45 AM PST

BBC.co.uk overspent by 48 percent in 2007/08 because management is “not sufficiently strong” and “financial oversight has not been sufficiently effective”, according to the BBC Trust’s review in to the…

DVD DRM Cracking Now Illegal Again In Finland - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 28 May 2008 07:47 AM PST

Helsinki’s appeals court has overturned a 2007 copyright ruling that allowed users to break “ineffective” DVD copy protection. Last May, a judge acquitted a pair of hacktivists who cracked the…

Private Copying Levy: Hardware Makers Ready For Europe-Wide ‘iPod Tax’? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 May 2008 02:48 AM PST

Hardware makers meet politicians and copyright societies in Brussels today to discuss introducing a Europe-wide levy on media devices, offsetting revenue apparently lost from personal copying. Since 2001, 22 of…

Astroturfing, Flogging And 29 Other Dodgy Sales Practices Now Illegal - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 May 2008 01:40 AM PST

New laws that came in to force on Bank Holiday Monday should give pause to marketers using blogs, social media and the web in general. The new Consumer Protection from…

UK Snapshot: Broadband Take-Up Highest In Countryside, 30 Percent Watch Video - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 May 2008 01:07 AM PST

Thirty percent of us in the UK have used the internet to watch video content - but those in Edinburgh are the biggest users (45 percent) and we Welsh are…

Broadband Content Bits: Ofcom Deregs, EC Plan Advances - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 May 2008 02:42 AM PST

-- Ofcom: The media regulator is deregulating the wholesale broadband market for 70 percent of the UK, dropping a compulsion that BT (NYSE: BT) supplies its Datastream network access product…

Ofcom Launches Another Pay-TV Consultation; No Picnic For BSkyB - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 May 2008 03:29 AM PST

BSkyB’s launch plans for its digital terrestrial television pay-TV service Picnic are stuck in a holding pattern, after Ofcom announced yesterday, yet another consultation into the service and in Sky’s…

Microsoft, Still Fighting EC, Appeals Record Anti-Trust Fine - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 May 2008 06:55 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has applied to Europe’s Court of First Instance to appeal part of the record 899 million euro antitrust fine it was handed in September and February -…

BBC Admits To Premium Rate Phone-In Problems; Pays £123,000 To Charity - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 09 May 2008 12:11 PM PST

The UK’s premium rate phone-in scandal rumbles on. The BBC admitted today that £106,000 raised for charity through a premium rate fundraising phone-in was in fact kept by Audiocall, a…

Indie Labels To Websites: Pay For Our Music With This New License - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 06:30 AM PST

The body representing indie record labels, and a quarter of all UK music, has called on the UK government to create a new licensing system that could extract more money…

PhonepayPlus Probes UK Premium Rate Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 02 May 2008 01:35 AM PST

UK regulator PhonepayPlus has announced a review into the 350 million pound (US$691.6 million) a year premium-rate industry, after complaints soared by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2007.…

Kangaroo Faces OFT Questions; Minor Inquiry - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 29 Apr 2008 10:58 AM PST

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is asking rival broadcasters their views on BBCWW/ITV/C4’s Kangaroo VOD joint venture, which isn’t even yet due for launch until August at the earliest,…

Ofcom To Fine ITV Record £4 Million For Premium Rate Phone In Scandals? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:14 AM PST

ITV (LSE: ITV) could be slapped with a record fine of about £4 million pounds following the conclusion of Ofcom’s six-month investigation into last year’s premium phone line scandal, reports…

Music Locker MP3tunes Pleads For Users To Bankroll EMI Copyright Defence - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 06:14 AM PST

MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson is resorting to desperate tactics in his defense against music copyright charges brought by EMI. The digital locker proprietor has emailed users urging them to upgrade…

Ofcom: BBC Should Not Pay ISPs For iPlayer Traffic - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 05:42 AM PST

That should settle the matter then. Asked his opinion yesterday by MPs on the House Of Commons’ media and business committees, Ofcom CEO Ed Richards said: “(The BBC paying ISPs)…

Sell BBC Radio, C4 To Fund Public Web Publisher: Bazalgette - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:44 AM PST

Add this to the file of BBC detractors. Former Endemol creative director Peter Bazalgette has called for BBC Radio 1 and 2 to be sold and for BBC Worldwide and…

Half Of Youngsters Ignore ‘Illegal Downloading Is Stealing’ Comparison - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:22 AM PST

File under: “Unsurprising Research Conclusions”. Research firm TNS finds 51 percent of young adults consider downloading music and movies illegally online is nothing like as bad as stealing from the…

OFT Clears Lovefilm’s Amazon DVD Acquisition - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Apr 2008 01:23 AM PST

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Lovefilm‘s acquisition of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) DVD rental business despite significant earlier competition concerns. The deal, under which Amazon is handing over…

As Expected TF1 Sues YouTube; Seeking €100 Million In Damages - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:03 PM PST

As was first reported last December, French TV network TF1 has filed suit against YouTube alleging copyright infringement. French newspaper Les Echos, via Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY), said the network was…

Vivendi Games/Activision Merger Nodded Through By EC - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:19 AM PST

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

Pirate Bay Seeks ISP Block Pay-Out - From Same Music Biz That’s Suing It - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:03 AM PST

The Pirate Bay‘s capacity to poke and rile the music business for laughs knows no bounds. This time, the BitTorrent index is seeking compensation from the IFPI for traffic lost…

Music Biz Would Rather Tax iPods Than Legitimise Format Shifting - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 06:58 AM PST

The record industry has challenged a UK government proposal that would legalise “format shifting” from CD to gadgets like iPods - and instead demanded portable music device makers pay a…

EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:53 AM PST

This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…