What is the music industry's next move?

The Guardian

By Charles Arthur April 24, 2008

It won't say - which makes it appear to have made idle threats. Having warned a number of British internet service providers (ISPs) a fortnight ago that they had two weeks to "take action" or face court injunctions, the BPI - which represents record labels in the UK - now has to decide quite what it's going to do, as some (specifically, Carphone Warehouse) have responded that they won't, while others have said very little.


The subsidiary question that some were asking was: on what grounds could the BPI seek an injunction against an ISP, since its argument isn't with the ISP, but the subscribers doing the illicit file-sharing? The answer - provided by a friendly ISP - is that it could take the ISPs to court under section 97 of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, on the grounds that the ISP has not "taken action" to prevent the breach of the BPI members' copyright - such as Island Records, whose artist Amy Winehouse last year won the not-sought-after accolade of "most pirated artist" following the runaway success of her album Back To Black.


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