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Christine Payne, Chair of the Creative Coalition Campaign and General Secretary of Equity, discusses the evolving nature of the fight against online copyright infringement and highlights some important upcoming developments. The landscape in the fight against online copyright infringement has evolved significantly in recent years and in many areas we have made great progress. But …

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John McVay, Chief Executive of Pact, welcomes a new study published by Carnegie Mellon University looking in detail at the effectiveness of site blocking orders. The UK’s creative industries are a key growth sector and one of the fastest growing parts of our economy. The statistics are now well rehearsed by industry representatives and politicians …

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The Creative Coalition Campaign (CCC) welcomes the appointments of John Whittingdale as Culture Secretary and Sajid Javid as Business Secretary and calls on them to stand up for the interests of the creative industries in the UK and Europe. Both new ministers have been great supporters of the creative industries during previous roles. John Whittingdale …

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The Creative Coalition Campaign has today welcomed a report from the Labour Party’s creative industries and digital policy review led by former UK Film Council Director John Woodward. The review looks at the challenges and opportunities for policymakers and businesses alike as well as how can Britain can better compete and continue to lead the …

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Ed Vaizey, Minister for Digital Industries and Kevin MacLellan, Chairman of NBCUniversal international, led a fantastic lineup of speakers to address Let’s Go Connected, an international media conference showcasing the world’s leading online distribution platforms for ebooks, music, film and TV. Following highly successful events in Brussels, Madrid and Berlin, Let’s Connected was held in London …

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When it comes to charting technological change, historians could do worse than to look at the presents we give each other at Christmas. Whereas once people bought radios, later they gave televisions as gifts; we traded pagers for mobile phones; and the Walkman was edged out by the Discman and then the iPod. And of …

From Betamax to Blinkbox: Film and TV industries meeting consumer demand for digital content via safe, legal sources Read More »

Creative Coalition Chair Christine Payne welcomes new report highlighting fantastic range of content available from legal online platforms Almost 90% of the most popular and highest quality film and television content is now available across legal digital platforms, according to a new report compiled by KPMG and published today. The report, UK availability of Film …

New KPMG Report Highlights Huge Consumer Choice For Film & TV Online In The UK With 86% Of The Most Popular Titles Available Read More »

The Creative Coalition Campaign welcomes new measures from Google as a step in the right direction Google has today announced new measures designed to tackle online copyright infringement. These measures are a welcome acknowledgement that search engines must do more to tackle piracy and promote legal sources of entertainment content. Hopefully this will have a …

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Christine Payne, General Secretary of Equity and Chair of the Creative Coalition Campaign, has welcomed the launch of Creative Content UK, a  new partnership that will boost consumer awareness of the wide array of legitimate online content services and help reduce online copyright infringement. Creative Content UK is a unique partnership between the UK’s creative …

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The Creative Coalition Campaign has today welcomed a report by Mike Weatherley, Intellectual Property Adviser to the Prime Minister, entitled Search Engines and Piracy, which outlines the shortcomings of search engine providers in the fight against online piracy. The report concludes that Google should take a leading role amongst search engines in tackling online piracy …

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