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…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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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 -…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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French Digg clone Fuzz has been forced offline after a link posted by a user to an off-site story was deemed to have constituted privacy invasion. Paris’ court of the…

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Ofcom has proposed giving more license fee money to ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4 and others to stave off financial threats they face in digital transition. In its lengthy and…

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Well, it was fun for the broadcasters while it lasted. Ofcom has proposed new rules that all but kill interactive TV shows that exist solely to make money. Amongst the…

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Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should reduce the time for which they store users’ records to six…

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