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Content industries form European lobbying body
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 12 January 2010
Of course, while various European governments start to introduce tougher laws to combat online piracy, those friendly goons running the European Union have so far proven less helpful (to copyright owners, they’ve been rather nice to file-sharers), with some cheeky members of the European Parliament even going as far to propose European legislation that would ban three-strikes-style systems across Europe (albeit without success so far).
It’s presumably with that in mind – and also with a desire to see anti-piracy measures being considered in the UK, France and Spain introduced across the continent – that various content industry trade bodies have joined together to form the not at all dull sounding European Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee to lobby on piracy issues at a Brussels/Strasbourg level.
