Man jailed in £460,000 CD and DVD fraud
Read More →A LANCASHIRE man has been jailed for three years and ten months for the sale of counterfeit DVDs, CDs and MP3s, which yielded almost half a million pounds. Lester Hawkes, [...]
New unit to tackle online piracy and counterfeit crime
Read More →FACT welcomes the creation of a new police unit aimed at targeting intellectual property crime which has been announced by Intellectual Property Minister, Lord Younger and City of London Police [...]
FACT’s Achievements Acknowledged By Industry With BVA Special Award
Read More →FACT was presented with the British Video Association’s Special Award at the BVA Awards ceremony in London. The award, voted for unanimously by the BVA Council, recognises the success of [...]
UK Cinema staff rewarded for keeping films safe
Read More →Cash rewards of thousands of pounds have been presented to 13 staff members from cinemas across the UK who intervened successfully to prevent illegal recordings of films including SKYFALL, TED, [...]
FACT talks about UK creative industry on BBFC podcast
Read More →FACT features on the latest BBFC podcast. Hear about our work and how we help to protect the jobs of those working in the UK’s creative industries.
Four arrested in UK piracy crackdown
Read More →THE GLOBAL fight against piracy came to the West Midlands this morning (Friday 1 February) when police raided four addresses along with investigators from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). [...]
Suspended prison sentence for illegal website owner
Read More →Kieron Sharp, FACT Director General, said: ‘This is a groundbreaking case, proving conclusively that operating a website that rebroadcasts copyrighted works without permission is a criminal offence.’ Full story [...]
London pirate DVD trader jailed for 18 months
Read More →A trader has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after admitting making and possessing for sale almost 5,000 fake copies of DVDs from his video shop located at 6 Dunton [...]
Two arrested in eBay counterfeit TV Box-set clampdown
Read More →Two people, a man aged 30 years and a woman aged 32 years, have been arrested in Cheltenham in a targeted operation against sellers of counterfeit goods on eBay. Gloucestershire [...]
Brothers Sentenced for Copyright Offences
Read More →Two Leeds men have today been convicted of copyright infringement. Brothers Faraz Saddiq, 27 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, and Ayaz Saddiq, 26 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, were arrested following an [...]
Pirate website owner guilty of contempt of court
Read More →Anton Vickerman, owner of the pirate website Surf The Channel, pleaded guilty yesterday (21st November) to contempt of court at Newcastle Crown Court. Vickerman published on the internet restricted court documents from the [...]
New portal launched to help consumers navigate legal online marketplace
Read More →The Content Map, a comprehensive portal for British digital content services, was unveiled today, encouraging UK online consumers to explore more than 150 authorised websites and platforms offering films, TV programmes, music, [...]
