Illegal file-sharing costs jobs and damages UK businesses. The Creative Coalition Campaign is working to ensure these jobs are protected, that our creative industries are able to survive and thrive, and that new, legal online services are able to launch and compete in a fair market place.   

According to the DCMS, the creative industries provide 1.8 million jobs in the UK across the stages of the supply chain, from production to distribution and marketing. As many as 800,000 people in the UK work in the TV, film, music and software sectors alone¹, and with illegal file-sharing depriving businesses of up to 20% of their revenues every year, many of those jobs are at risk. 

Bringing together trade unions and business, the Coalition is campaigning to ensure the Government protects these jobs by fulfilling its commitment to tackle illegal peer-2-peer (P2P) file-sharing in the expected Digital Economy Bill.

The coalition is chaired by Christine Payne, General Secretary of Equity.



¹Europe Economics. “The UK film, TV, music and software sectors: their importance to employment and output”, December 2008.