Digital Economy Act

This is JANET(UK)’s response to the Department for Business Education and Regulatory Reform’s consultation on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing.
26 June 2012 at 9:10pm
Ofcom have at last published the Initial Obligations Code on how ISPs must deal with copyright infringement reports under the Digital Economy Act 2010.
6 June 2012 at 11:49am
I was recently struck by just how new most of the legislation creating duties for operators of electronic communications network is. Compared to the Computer Misuse Act, which has only had one amendment since 1990, these laws seem to be changing a lot faster:
6 June 2012 at 11:11am
There seems to be a shift in how Governments and rightsholders are looking to use Internet intermediaries, such as ISPs, to enforce Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on line.
6 June 2012 at 11:10am
Over the past few months I've been working with UCISA's Networking Group to develop a set of standard templates that Janet customer organisations can use, if they wish, to respond to copyright infringement reports.
6 June 2012 at 11:01am
As well as deciding not to implement the web blocking powers under the Digital Economy Act 2010, the Government has today provided a progress update on the rest of the Act.
29 April 2013 at 1:03pm
Last year's Digital Economy Act 2010 created a power (s.17) for a court to order a service provider to prevent access to a "location on the Internet" if that location was being used, or likely to be used, to infringe copyright. That power has not been brought into force and last January Ofcom were asked to report to the Government on whether such blocking could be effective. In the past week there have been two, apparently contradictory, developments.
29 April 2013 at 1:05pm
The Chief Executive of OFCOM, Ed Richards, gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee last week, in which he reported on progress on the copyright enforcement and web blocking parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
13 August 2012 at 11:08am
I'm pleased to report that the Internet Society has published a discussion paper looking at different methods being proposed around the world to respond to the use of the Internet to breach Intellectual Property Rights. For each of the approaches - graduated response and suspension of access,  traffic shaping, blocking, content identification and filtering, and DNS manipulation - the paper looks at the implications for the Internet, Internet technologies, access and use.
6 June 2012 at 10:44am
It seems hard to believe, but Tuesday 12th April 2011 was the first anniversary of the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
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