Learning on ScreenTaking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Penalties for Copyright Infringement
- Title
- Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Penalties for Copyright Infringement
- Date
- 1 Aug 2008
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- Publisher
- Intellectual Property Office
- Category
- Public Consultation
- Subject
- Intellectual Property; UK Education; Archives; Libraries
- Inactive
- No
- Description
- Currently the maximum fine that Magistrate’s Courts can award for online copyright infringement is £5,000. To reflect the commercial damage that large scale copyright infringement causes, the UK IPO is consulting on increasing the level of fines handed down by a Magistrate’s Court to a maximum of £50,000. The consultation takes forward Gowers Review recommendation 36, which recommended matching penalties for online and physical copyright infringement by increasing sanctions for online infringements. Consultation ran from 11/8/2008 - 31/10/2008.
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