Press releases and announcements - 2006

Telecoms companies to withdraw repertoire from mobile music services in Indonesia and the Philippines

19/12/06

Record companies win legal copyright case against ISP

18/12/06

Video pioneer Ray Still appointed consultant to UMGI Board

13/12/06

Music industry welcomes raids on biggest piracy black spot in Europe

06/12/06

IFPI rejects Gowers' recommendations on copyright term as a "missed opportunity"

06/12/06

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - statement by John Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of IFPI

27/11/06

Iceland slashes tax on music

23/11/06

Illegal Dutch website offline after BREIN action

23/11/06

Jamba/Jamster signs its first pan-European mobile music products agreement, with EMI

23/11/06

Internet cafes shut in Italian raids

22/11/06

EMI Music and Gotuit Media announce content licensing partnership

16/11/06

SMG and EMI announce strategic digital distribution partnership in China

16/11/06

British consumers demand fair play on copyright for British musicians

13/11/06

IFPI Statement on European Commission's publication of 2005 Customs seizures of counterfeit goods

10/11/06

Suspended sentence and €70,000 damages bill for karaoke copyright criminal

09/11/06

At Universal Music Japan, Kazu Koike elevated to President/COO

31/10/06

Major prison sentence for music pirate in Chile

24/10/06

Universal Music launches value campaign, reduces download prices on 1,500 albums

30/10/06

Ground Breaking Verdict Against 21 Operators of Finnish BitTorrent network

27/10/06

New court setback for Allofmp3.com

25/10/06

Spanish star David Bisbal to perform concert at European Parliament in Strasbourg

19/10/06

An important success for copyright in Sweden

19/10/06

International music rights owners set the record straight on Allofmp3.com

18/10/06

Recording industry launches fresh wave of actions against illegal file-sharing

17/10/06

Backgrounder: Risks of using p2p on the family computer

17/10/06

Dutch police dismantle illegal copying studio

17/10/06

Digital is driving first half world music sales

12/10/06

IFPI welcomes internet charity's 'Know IT All for Parents' campaign

10/10/06

Richard Gooch appointed IFPI Director of Technology

30/09/06

Major sentences for piracy issued in Argentina

14/09/06

Taiwan's Kuro in substantial settlement with recording industry

14/09/06

IFPI publishes annual Global Recording Industry in Numbers

31/08/06

Judge tells ISP to hand over user details to Dutch anti-piracy organisation

23/08/06

Music pirate gets nine months jail

23/08/06

Raid in Indonesia busts pirate disc factory

11/08/06

Recording industry welcomes use of anti-piracy forensics by Thai government

07/08/06

KAZAA settles with record industry and goes legitimate

27/07/06

Major police crackdown on organised piracy leads to 10 arrests and more than 600 CD burners seized

26/07/06

IFPI anti-piracy operation leads to guilty verdict in Beatles case

17/07/06

Colombian government stiffens penalties for piracy

14/07/06

Victory for record industry in Russian illegal CD production case

12/07/06

Recorded music - driver of a US$100 billion economic sector

22/06/06

Industry welcomes new EU-US joint strategy to fight soaring global trade in counterfeit and pirate goods

20/06/06

Zoekmp3 latest victory in international campaign against pirate music websites

19/06/06

BIEM statement on Allofmp3.com by Ronald Mooij

16/06/06

Allofmp3.com: setting the record straight

01/06/06

The Pirate Bay, international engine of illegal file-sharing, is shut down by Swedish police

31/05/06

Germany launches biggest legal action against illegal file-sharing

23/05/06

Chinese version of Parents' Guide to p2p and Legal Downloading launched

18/05/06

Operation 'Secret Bay' in Italy hits pirate sales on eBay

11/05/06

CD Mastering plant faces damages costs for pirate activity

03/05/06

IFPI Latin America Flash - "Home delivery" websites raided in Colombia

26/04/06

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN takes action against major illegal file sharing service

20/04/06

Illegal music file-sharers targeted by fresh wave of legal action

04/04/06

Digital formats continue to drive the global music market - World Sales 2005

31/03/06

IFPI sees China's actions against pirate disc plants as "a promising step"

29/03/06

Leong May-Seey appointed IFPI Regional Director for Asia

29/03/06

Kazaa contempt case given the green light

23/03/06

Comment from John Kennedy, Chairman & CEO of IFPI, on the adoption today by the French National Assembly of a draft law implementing the EU Copyright Directive in France

22/03/06

IFPI Latin America Flash - major raid on pirate film and music facility

14/03/06

Operation "Sanremo Plus": 368 CD burners and 17 arrests in one week nationwide raids

09/03/06

Music sales in Canada fall 4 percent in 2005: downward trend resumes as international body calls on Canada to act on copyright reform and curb illegal file swapping

02/03/06

IFPI statement on Razorback

22/02/06

MPA and IFPI commit to enhanced copyright protection in Latin America

15/02/06

Court ruling confirms Internet Service Providers must act to stop web piracy

15/02/06

Setting the record straight on DRM - commentary by Dr Richard Gooch, IFPI

03/02/06

IFPI welcomes Hong Kong High Court decision on ISPs

26/01/06

Recording industry 'Download Legally' education campaign reaches out to Midem

21/01/06

Global digital music sales triple to US$1.1 billion in 2005 as new market takes shape

19/01/06

5,676 police actions during the last quarter of 2005 thanks to Operation Madrid Plus

19/01/06