Press releases and announcements - 2007

Beijing court confirms Yahoo China's music service violates copyright

20/12/07

Italian police shut eBay scam

17/12/07

Malaysian police raid illegal disc plants

11/12/07

Dutch court fines Bollywood pirates

10/12/07

USA - RIAA's Gold & Platinum Awards: October & November 2007

December 2007

Casper Bengtson appointed Managing Director, Universal Music Denmark

03/12/07

EMI Music to establish talent agency in Japan

29/11/07

International Recording Industry welcomes groundbreaking agreement in France to help in the fight against internet piracy

23/11/07

Finnish National Bureau of Investigation raids top pirate sites

19/11/07

Recording industry calls on EU to tackle China's massive music piracy problem

15/11/07

Dutch file-sharing site closes after notice from anti-piracy watchdog

15/11/07

Illegal music download stores closed after raids

14/11/07

Yahoo! Inc challenged over intellectual property rights abuse in China

13/11/07

Polish Police Shut Down Pre-Release Music Site In Wroclaw Raids

09/11/07

'Operation Counterfeit' hits Russian pirates

06/11/07

OECD Report On Impact Of Piracy

10/07

Major anti-piracy street raids in Brazil

31/10/07

Ukrainian court upholds ruling against illegal music website

30/10/07

Italian raids lead to fining of illegal music uploaders

29/10/07

Paraguay - major street and laboratory raids

29/10/07

USA - RIAA's Gold & Platinum Awards: September 2007

October 2007

Recording Industry applauds launch of negotiations aimed at producing new enforcement agreement

23/10/07

Asia-Pacific tunes into unlimited music downloads with MusicStation launch in Hong Kong

22/10/07

Capitol Music Group partners with Victoria's Secret for release of Spice Girls greatest hits CD

16/10/07

Major pirate market raided in Argentina

16/10/07

Platinum Europe Awards - Q3 2007 - latest winners

16/10/07

Australia - Raid of pirate country music seller after market operator refuses to co-operate

10/10/07

IFPI statement on US uploader case

05/10/07

Italian police crack down on DC++ illegal P2P network

01/10/07

CD plant pirating top Turkish artist is raided by police

28/09/07

Recording industry knocks out eDonkey servers in new actions against internet piracy

21/09/07

USA - RIAA's Gold & Platinum Awards: August 2007

19/09/07

Dutch police dismantle pirate disc plant

13/09/07

Australia reports first half music sales

10/09/07

IFPI welcomes Swedish report calling on ISPs to tackle copyright infringement

05/09/07

2,000 pirated DVDs seized and illegal piracy websites shut down in joint police and industry operation

31/08/07

Latvian officials attend cyber-crime summit

31/08/07

Pirate Croatian CDs seized in Melbourne

24/08/07

Baltic CD plant in record piracy payout

23/08/07

Indonesian raid leads to six arrests

20/08/07

Defendants in largest ever US disc piracy case sentenced

09/08/07

Japanese students hit digital music milestone: 1 million full-track mobile downloads

03/08/07

musicFIRST reveals corporate radio's revenue growth

30/07/07

Arms seized in Sicilian anti-piracy raids

27/07/07

International music industry responds to UK Government's decision on term extension

24/07/07

Record seizure of illegal copying equipment in Rome

19/07/07

Harry Potter leaks on Pirate Bay

19/07/07

‘Flavor of Life’ contender for best-selling digital single

18/07/07

Australia - Better deal for artists ordered by copyright tribunal

12/07/07

UK- Rise of digital helps album sales top 60 million in first half of 2007

10/07/07

IFPI hails court ruling that ISPs must stop copyright piracy on their networks

04/07/07

Policeman and court official arrested in Italian piracy crackdown

04/07/07

IFPI publishes 2007 'Recording Industry in Numbers'

02/07/07

John Kennedy speaks at London Calling

28/06/07

White Stripes front man attacks illegal downloading

27/06/07

Some home truths about online music

27/06/07

Canadian Report Welcomed

21/06/07

International recording industry welcomes AT&T move to fight piracy

18/06/07

Australia - High Court confirms deep-linking is illegal

18/06/07

Australia - MIPI supports Rock The Schools 07

14/06/07

Victory for copyright in Sweden

12/06/07

The future for record companies - Max Hole at UMGI looks at myth and reality

June 2007

Hutchison launching South-East Asia's first mobile and online music service

June 2007

Police raid P2P operators across Finland in major action against hubs

04/06/07

IFPI statement on European Commission’s publication of 2006 Customs seizures of counterfeit and pirate goods

01/06/07

Music piracy - ten inconvenient truths

31/05/07

UK recorded music industry awarded substantial damages against CD Wow

29/05/07

ICC urges G8 to take lead in stopping product counterfeiting and piracy

25/05/07

EMI Music Publishing songwriters win top honours at the 52nd Ivor Novello Awards

24/05/07

Research shows illegal file-sharing directly hits Italian music sales

24/05/07

Global music industry leaders to head to Hong Kong for second annual Music Matters forum

May 07

Police dawn raid stops allofmp3.com pirate vouchers scheme

21/05/07

Broad new coalition launched to promote creativity, jobs, and growth through copyright

18/05/07

EMI Music first major music company to make entire digital catalogue available in Amazon's new digital store

16/05/07

BSA & MIPI welcome Federal Govt Funding to fight piracy

16/05/07

IFPI welcomes Parliamentary Report on intellectual property

16/05/07

EMI Music and MPL to release entire Paul McCartney solo catalogue digitally for first time

14/05/07

Raids smash piracy ring in Mexico

09/05/07

International heads of recorded music industry raise crisis of recorded music market in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel

09/05/07

EMI is first music major to ink digital deal in Vietnam

03/05/07

Major step forward in cross border music licensing regime

27/04/07

Canada: music sales data first quarter 2007

26/04/07

IFPI statement on Yahoo! China ruling

24/04/07

Polish music industry continues legal actions against illegal file-sharing

20/04/07

Seventy five UK acts set to showcase British Music Week in Germany

18/04/07

RIAA releases 2006 shipment report

17/04/07

Church official from Naples arrested in piracy crackdown

17/04/07

Australian record sales – 2006 full year results

12/04/07

Music and film associations merge anti-piracy enforcement operations in Brazil

11/04/07

IFPI statement on USTR action on China

09/04/07

Sao Paulo pirates hit by raids

04/04/07

Music industry sales figures in Germany

30/03/07

Music market sales data 2006

29/03/07

Italian DirectConnect P2P network shut down after police raids

27/03/07

Dutch anti-piracy group takes down illegal P2P site

21/03/07

EMI Music streamlines global and international marketing structure

16/03/07

EMI - Philippe Ascoli named Managing Director of Virgin France

16/03/07

Naples court imposes heavy jail sentences for music pirates

12/03/07

Latin America: Authorities in Brazil and Paraguay mount anti-piracy crackdown

09/03/07

Anti-piracy: Mexico steps up action in coordinated initiative

07/03/07

Roger Faxon becomes Chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing

06/03/07

Police raid leads to seizure of 276 CD burners

05/03/07

Danish Anti-Piracy Group allocates 700,000 kroner to new music and film projects

02/03/07

1 million counterfeit discs seized in Guatemalan street raid

28/02/07

Police launch major raid against CD pirates in Mexico City

28/02/07

EMI Music and Last.fm announce content partnership

28/02/07

Police celebrate success of anti-piracy campaign in Rome

27/02/07

Report Outlines Cost Of Piracy To Los Angeles

27/02/07

Couple arrested in pirate CD raid in Sydney

27/02/07

Italy – Pirate music dealer fined 363,000 euros

22/02/07

Ozark Henry most downloaded Belgian artist of 2006

20/02/07

Australian Market seller fined $22,000 for music piracy

14/02/07

DRM Interoperability Consortium Invites Steve Jobs to Join

12/02/07

Comments on DRM/interoperability by John Kennedy, Chairman & CEO of IFPI

08/02/07

Unauthorised uploading and downloading are illegal in Italy - statement of clarification by IFPI

02/02/07

IIPA's new economic study reveals the copyright industries remain a driving force in the U.S. economy

30/01/07

Finnish Customs launches campaign against counterfeits

25/01/07

23 'Counterfeiters' arrested in Naples

20/01/07

JF Cecillon promoted to new role of Chairman & CEO, EMI Music International and Ian Hanson to new position of Chief Operating Officer, EMI Music

18/01/07

IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2007

17/01/07

Major seizure of blank media in Argentina

09/01/07

Dutch court rules ISP should disclose identity details and keep illegal website offline

05/01/07