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Digital Piracy is declining in the EU and UK

16/12/2021

Digital Piracy is declining in the EU and UK according to a recent report by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). In Trends in Digital Copyright Infringement in the European Union, the EUIPO’s main finding was that digital piracy is declining for all types of content (TV, Film and Music). Except for a temporary increase in film piracy in the spring of 2020, the decline continued during the COVID pandemic with total piracy falling by […]

SOURCE: EUIPO - Music piracy by country and by access type 2018

Digital piracy is declining in Europe

11/12/2019

Digital piracy is declining in Europe according to recent research by the EUIPO and published in a report entitled Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union. The report examines consumption of copyright-infringing content in the 28 EU Member States, for TV programmes, music and film, using a variety of access methods. The analysis covers the period January 2017 to September 2018 and contains data for both fixed and mobile devices, as well as the main […]

Music piracy declines by 32% in Europe

30/11/2019

Music piracy declines by 32% in Europe with users still accessing pirated content nearly ten times a month according to a recent report by the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The report shows that there was a 15% EU-wide decrease in access of pirated online content from 2017-2018 but that pirated content was accessed 9.7 times per user per month in the first nine months of 2018, on both fixed and mobile devices. Although consumption […]

Online piracy declines in Europe

09/11/2019

Online piracy declines in Europe according to a study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) which shows that 51% of 15 to 24 year olds in Europe say they have not used, played, downloaded or streamed content from illegal sources in the last 12 months. This compares to 40% in the last study conducted in 2016. The 2019 Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard shows a decrease in the percentage of young people who […]