U.K. Parliament to Consider "Three-Strikes" P2P Bill

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 28, 2009 - 10:14am.

London - The U.K. government plans to introduce a bill mimicking France's recently enacted "three-strikes" legislation on file-sharing, which authorizes the suspension of the Internet accounts of those warned repeatedly they are violating copyrights, according to published reports. The bill will "make technical measures available, including account suspension," U.K. business, innovation and skills minister Peter Mandelson said at a meeting of government and entertainment industry heads, according to PaidContent's coverage.

"Technical measures will be a last resort, and I have no expectation of mass suspensions resulting," Mandelson added.

Costs related to identifying suspected file-swapping copyright infringers would be shared by rights holders and Internet service providers, according to the proposed legislation.

The proposed changes to U.K. copyright law were praised by Elio Leoni-Sceti, the chief executive of U.K.-based major record label EMI, as well as Vivendi CEO Jean-Bernard Levy, according to the Wall Street Journal's and Billboard's coverage.

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Published in DMW Daily, October 28, 2009

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