Press release

Secondary legislation to share the costs of the Digital Economy Act鈥檚 notification system laid in Parliament

Secondary legislation on sharing the costs of the Digital Economy Act鈥檚 measures to tackle online copyright infringement has been laid in Parliament.

From:
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Ed Vaizey
Published
5 July 2011
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

皇冠体育app Statutory Instrument implementing the shared costs has been laid in Parliament and will be debated in both houses.

Communications Minister Ed Vaizey said:

皇冠体育app Digital Economy Act sets out to protect our creative economy from online copyright infringement, which industry estimates costs them 拢400m a year.

We are introducing a system of mass notification to warn people about the unlawfulness of copyright infringement, explain the harm it does and point them toward legitimate content.

皇冠体育appse measures are expected to benefit industry by around 拢200m a year and as rights holders will be the main beneficiaries, we believe our decision on costs is fair to everyone.

Notes to Editors

  1. 皇冠体育app decision over how the costs would be split was announced in September last year. 皇冠体育app is available at the News Distribution Service website.
  2. 皇冠体育app can be found at the legislation.gov.uk website.
  3. For further information call Paul Conroy on 020 7215 5303.

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Published 5 July 2011