Industry may start pushing for legislation on net-piracy policing as ISP negotiations falter
A BPI report reportedly concludes voluntary measures with ISPs will fail, so legislation to tackle online piracy will be needed.…
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RIAA appeal filesharing court case webcast proposals
The RIAA has appealed a ruling that a pending hearing in its file-sharing case against Joel Tenenbaum can be streamed online.…
Winehouse and Fielder-Civil officially divorced
Blake Fielder-Civil has changed his Facebook relationship status to single, signalling the end of his marriage to Amy Winehouse.…
IMPALA meet with European culture commissioner
Indie label trade body IMPALA met European Culture Commissioner Ján Figel at MIDEM to discuss discrimination against independents in digital and mobile music.…
Boy George locked up for 15 months
Boy George has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay £5000 costs after being found guilty of falsely imprisoning and beating a male escort at his London flat.…
Gary Glitter abandons sex offenders appeal
Gary Glitter has withdrawn his appeal against an order to sign the sex offenders register, meaning he remains on it for life.…
John Mortimer dies
Dramatist and author John Mortimer has died aged 85, and he was the QC who overturned the 1977 indecency case over the Sex Pistols album.…
Sharon Osbourne wins Sun libel case
The Sun has agreed to pay Sharon Osbourne undisclosed damages and legal costs and has apologised over its claim that she was driving her husband Ozzy to destruction.…
Call for C-Murder to be jailed before trial
Prosecutors in C-Murder's retrial have asked for him to be jailed after he broke house arrest rules twice, though the judge decided to warn him instead.…
RIAA music fan litigation to be webcast
Judge Nancy Gertner has agreed to let the RIAA v Joel Tenenbaum proceedings be webcast online, after Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson pressed for it.…
YouTube muting uncleared music in user-generated videos
YouTube has started muting user-generated videos that contain unlicensed music, mainly affecting samples of Warner Music catalogue amid a licensing dispute between the two.…
Rapper beaten and robbed in LA
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rapper Bizzy Bone was beaten and robbed in Los Angeles, with one man charged with the assault and police seeking further suspects.…