South America's anti-piracy initiative known as Operation 404 keeps delivering with Brazilian and Peruvian law enforcement authorities completing a series of actions against online infringing services...
A vast majority of consumers feel human creativity remains essential to the creation of music and that an artist’s music or vocals should not be used...
Germany-based streaming manipulation service SP-Onlinepromotion.com has been shut down following action from Germany record labels' trade group BVMI and global recording industry organisation IFPI. IFPI said...
Recorded music trade organisation the IFPI has launched four new streaming-based charts covering countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In each country...
Frances Moore has announced that she plans to step down from her position as Chief Executive Officer of IFPI at the end of 2023, after three...
A City Court in Sofia ruled on 31 May 2023 that three ISPs in Bulgaria have to block access to BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, local...
The European Commission has published its biennial 'Report on the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights' (IPR) in third countries, which identified China as the...
The Hamburg Regional Court has issued an injunction requiring the individual hosting the stream ripping software YouTube-DL to stop making the software available. The software allows...
The Court of Milan has affirmed a previous decision forcing content delivery network CloudFlare to stop providing its public DNS service to three BitTorrent sites, noting that CloudFlare had the...
The global recorded music industry's total trade revenues were up by 9.0% in 2022 to $26.2 billion, according to trade organisation IFPI's Global Music Report 2023....