The new proposals on how to deal with copyright infringement, put forward by the government yesterday (25th August), could end up politicising any future action, the Publishers Association has warned.

The government is proposing a tougher stance to that outlined in the Digital Britain report, released earlier this year, which could...

The government has announced further measures to tackle digital piracy today, mid-way through the consultation period on its Digital Britain report.

The Guardian reports that these include cutting internet connections for persistent offenders who share film, music and book files on a peer-to-peer basis. This measure is...

An anti-piracy web tool launched by the Publishers' Association in February has recorded around 800 illegally uploaded texts and successfully helped to remove almost 90% of them from the web.
The PA's Copyright Infringement portal combats online piracy by targeting websites offering titles for free download. Publishers log the...

Social publishing website Scribd has defended itself against accusations of piracy after novels by J K Rowling and Ken Follett were discovered in their entirety on its site.

Tammy Nam, Scribd vice president for marketing, told the Guardian that its policy was to "immediately remove copyrighted material when we receive...