Sep
15
2010

UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs

Andorin writes “The UK’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has released a report (PDF) related to the new Digital Economy Act. The debate between copyright holders and ISPs about who should front the costs for the enforcement of the Act’s anti-piracy provisions has come to a close: Rights holders will pay 75% of the copyright enforcement costs, with the remaining 25% of the bill going to ISPs (and therefore their customers). Says the Minister for Communications, Ed Vaizey: ‘Protecting our valuable creative industries, which have already suffered significant losses as a result of people sharing digital content without paying for it, is at the heart of these measures… We expect the measures will benefit our creative economy by some

Written by Staff in: Slashdot | Tags: ,

No Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL


Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

adsense

Cool-O-Rama: News for Geeks