ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association’s) has crowned top officer Michael Bowie of Nottinghamshire Trading Standards Department as anti-piracy investigator of the year. John Hillier, Anti-Piracy Unit (APU) manager of ELSPA presented Michael Bowie with the Award for Individual Excellence, designed in 2003 to recognise outstanding work in the area of anti-piracy, in a special [...]

The French Constitutional Council has raised concerns and removed some key measures from the long awaited copyright bill, which was adopted by France’s two houses of Parliament June 30. The Council, which is responsible for ensuring that legislative proposals comply with the national constitution before they are incorporated into law, has removed from the bill [...]

An industry-wide standard on the copy controls for digital entertainment is needed to aid consumers, the trade body for 7,000 US music stores has said. If a compatible system cannot be created, an alternative method must be adopted, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (Narm) added. There are currently several different technologies which limit how [...]