Civil liability for illegal file-sharing: who faces the music?

Lauterbach, Thorsten

Abstract

For some time music copyright owners and their representatives, e.g. the BPI in the UK, have been pursuing copyright pirates, be they operative in the physical or virtual worlds, through the criminal courts. If successful, these actions usually result in fines and imprisonment of the wrongdoers. Rights owners, however, are also keen on getting compensation for the losses hey suffer; naturally, the arenas for this course of action are the civil courts. If these losses occur through illegal file-sharing, the rights holders face the task of establishing who the culprits are. More and more often, they look for assistance from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide the IP addresses and other personal details from alleged illegal file-sharers in order to learn against whom they should actually start civil proceedings.

Citation

LAUTERBACH, T. 2008. Civil liability for illegal file-sharing: who faces the music? Scottish law gazette, 76(2), pages 46-47.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 30, 2008
• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2008
• Deposit Date: Feb 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 20, 2024
• Journal: Scottish law gazette
• Print ISSN: 0036-9314
• Publisher: Scottish Law Agents Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 46-47
• Keywords: Music; Copyright; UK; Copyright pirates; Rights owners
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2243441