Days after Belgium's House of Commons adopted a text transposing the European Union's Copyright Directive, introducing equitable remuneration for performers for the online use of music, independent labels' organisation IMPALA has renewed its opposition to the measure.

In a document send to the media, IMPALA called for a "swift and faithful implementation" of the performers' provisions in the Directive, and invited stakeholders to look into the agreement between labels and performers signed i...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has seized six domain names of websites "used to distribute copyrighted material without the authorization of the copyright holders."

According to the DoJ, law enforcement investigation from the Eastern District of Virginia confirmed that copyright-protected music content was "present and available" for streaming or downloading on each of these six websites.

The crackdown was part of ongoing efforts by the DoJ and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) t...

The Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, England has sentenced Michael Hornung to four years and six months imprisonment following conviction by a jury for selling and advertising unauthorised decoders.

Hornung was found to have operated his illegal business for over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017. The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) alongside the Greater Manchester Police investigated in 2014 the activities of an online supplier of television set-top boxes which e...