Regulatory Developments

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.
The Initial Obligations Code, which will define which networks and rightsholders fall within the Act’s scheme for Copyright Infringement Reports and how they must act, [...]

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 [...]