DIGITAL MUSIC GOES GLOBAL IN 2011 WHILE ACTIONS ON PIRACY GAIN MOMENTUM

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• Major international music services now in 58 countries, up from 23 in January 2011
• Digital music revenues up 8 per cent to US$5.2 billion
• Anti-piracy action makes an impact in France, New Zealand. US to follow in 2012

26th July 2011 - Plácido Domingo has been named as chairman of IFPI, the organisation that represents the recording industry worldwide. Domingo is a world-renowned, multifaceted artist. Recognised as one of the finest and most influential singing actors in the history of opera, he is also a conductor and a major force as an opera administrator in his role as general director of the LA Opera.

21st July 2011 - Online payment service PayPal has agreed a partnership with City of London Police and the international recording industry that will see even stronger action to prevent PayPal's services being used by illegal websites worldwide that sell copyright infringing music. PayPal has always banned the use of PayPal for items that infringe or violate any copyright under its Acceptable Use Policy.

London, 7th July 2011 - IFPI, representing the recording industry worldwide, today welcomed the agreement struck between ISP internet service providers and creative industries to tackle copyright infringement online.

27 May 2011 - Representatives of the creative sector worldwide have welcomed commitments on intellectual property protection made by the G8 Summit today in Deauville, France.

Rome, 21 April 2011 - The international recording industry has welcomed the decision of a public prosecutor in Italy to issue an injunction requiring all ISPs to block users' access to the unlicensed BTJunkie service.

London, 2nd March 2011 - The international recording industry has recently engaged with MasterCard, Visa and the City of London Police to extend cooperation in tackling illegal online services selling unlicensed music worldwide.

27th January 2011 - A court in Finland has ordered two operators of an illegal DirectConnect hub to pay more than Ђ820,000 in compensation to rights holders for facilitating the illegal distribution of films, games and music. This compensation payout is the highest ever awarded in any case investigated by Finland's Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC).

London, 20th January 2011

 “Governments can turn the tide against piracy in 2011”

    * First actions by ISPs to stop mass illegal file-sharing announced in France, Ireland and South Korea in 2010

    * Progress expected in UK, New Zealand, the EU and Malaysia in 2011

    * Digital revenues up six per cent to US$4.6 billion in 2010, with 400+ licensed services

    * Piracy is hitting jobs and investment, according to IFPI Digital Music Report

General Directorate "Combat against Organized Crime" officers and an FBI agent witnessed the destroying of the illegal carriers. During their visit in Smolian, they discussed with local students the risks in the Internet and the harms of drugs usage.

9th November 2010 - A major consumer education campaign is being launched by the non-profit organisation Childnet International (www.childnet.com), supported by a new partnership between the film, TV and music industries. The campaign starts in the UK and is planned for rollout in multiple countries and languages in the next few months.

Paris, 29th October 2010 - SNEP, the organisation that represents the recording industry in France, is pleased to partner with retailers and French government to launch the Youth Card for young people, aimed at those aged between 12 and 25.

IFPI welcomes action against multi-million euro Masterbox operation in four countries

More than 100 police officers in four countries have taken action against those involved in the manufacture, supply and sale of unlicensed CD and DVD box sets that generated millions of euro in illegal sales revenues.

18.10.2010 Atlanta, Georgia - A major Federal case against a raw materials supplier, CD-R burner operations and distributors of pirate CDs throughout the southeast United States has resulted in the conviction of two defendants after a six-day trial in United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. 

14.10.2010, Helsinki - A Finnish man received a three-month suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay €377,000 for running a computer server or “hub” that enabled users to illegally upload unlicensed music online.

07.10.2010 A Finnish District Court yesterday sentenced a peer-to-peer (P2P) hub operator to a four month suspended prison sentence. In addition the 33 year old man was ordered to pay Euro 307,450 in compensation to right holders.

The Italian fiscal police (GdF) have carried out an operation to close an unlicensed web radio company.

IFPI, representing the international recording industry, today welcomed the strong backing of the European Parliament for coordinated action at an EU level to tackle piracy of creative works.

More than 120 Terabytes of pirate content were seized; the profit of the organised crime gang exceeds more than 2.5 mln. Euro.

London, 26th July 2010 – A pirate music dealer was ordered today to hand over £100,000 in payment to the record companies she ripped off by running an organised crime gang and illegal trading empire. 

Stockholm, 4th February 2010 - Police raided locations across Sweden on Tuesday, arresting four individuals accused of infringing copyright law by operating Direct Connect (DC) hubs. Officers suspect the hubs were used to allow users access to hundreds of thousands of copyright infringing music files.

· Global digital music trade revenues reach US$4.2 billion, up 12% in 2009
· 400 services licensed worldwide by music companies with ISPs, mobile and other partners
· New figures show local music collapsing in major markets as piracy bites into releases, sales and investment in France, Spain and Brazil
· IFPI Digital Music Report highlights urgent need for legislation to curb digital piracy on ISP networks

London, 21 January 2010 - More than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels, as music companies license music in partnership with ISPs and mobile operators, subscription services, streaming sites and hundreds of download stores.
However, despite the continuing growth of the digital music business – with trade revenues up 12% to an estimated US$4.2 billion in 2009 – illegal file-sharing and other forms of online piracy are eroding investment and sales of local music in major markets.

-  Judge orders gang to hand over proceeds of crime to music companies
-  Illegal operation had seen imported pirate CDs from the Czech Republic sold at market stalls and record stores across London and the South East of England

London, 8th December 2009 - A Crown Court judge has confiscated £70,000 profit accrued by pirate CD traders and made a compensation order in favour of the music companies whose repertoire was being sold illegally.

London, 28th September 2009 – Jeremy Banks has been promoted to the newly-created position of Director, Anti-Piracy at IFPI. Banks, who has headed the organisation's internet anti-piracy unit for several years, will oversee all of IFPI's London anti-piracy activities. The appointment for the first time brings IFPI's London internet and physical enforcement anti-piracy operations into a single management structure.

IFPI also calls on the European Commission to strengthen the EU legislative framework

20thJuly 2009

Spanish police have conducted a major operation against bars using unlicensed video jukeboxes in the region of Extremadura.  It is believed the illegal jukeboxes had generated around one million euro in revenue for their supplier.