British member of Parliament Damian Hinds has introduced a legislation in the House of Commons to "to increase transparency around automated web scraping" by addressing the growing use of anonymous bots scraping content, data and value from news organisation's websites. The Automated Online Software (Access and Transparency) Bill was introduced a Private Member’s Bill, which means that it is the initiative of an MP and not necessarily a proposed legislation supported by the government. A first r...

South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will launch on June 30 a stand-alone unit tasked to investigate international copyright infringement affecting the country's intellectual property. The government approved a decree that will transform the existing anti-piracy task force into the permanent Copyright Special Judicial Police Division, which will function with eight newly assigned investigators. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young said the division will "track...

On the occasion of Music Day on June 21, four French music industry organisation — ADAMI (neighbouring rights society representing performers), SCPP (neighbouring rights society representing owners of sound recordings), SNEP (record labels) and SACEM (authors and publishers) — have called on policy-makers to "to stop allowing platforms to exploit with impunity what our authors and artists have sometimes spent years creating." In an open letter, the organisations claim that "behind every song are...