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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 […]

Music supports 2 million jobs in EU and UK

17/11/2020

Music supports 2 million jobs in EU and UK and contributes €81.9 Bn annually to the economy according to a study by Oxford Economics commissioned by IFPI. The study, entitled The Economic Impact of Music in Europe, using 2018 data, found that music’s annual economic contributions to the EU28 include: Supporting two million jobs Contributing €81.9 billion in gross value added to GDP, and Exporting €9.7 billion worth of goods and services to countries outside […]

Spotify launches in Russia

19/07/2020

Spotify launches in Russia together with 12 other European countries bringing the total number countries the streamer is in to 92. Listeners in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine can receive Spotify’s full experience of 50 million tracks, 4 billion playlists, and localised music personalization features. Expansion in Europe comes as consumers in the region embrace streaming. Russia in particular is one of the […]

HUAWEI Music launches in Europe

03/04/2020

HUAWEI Music launches in Europe in the UK and 15 other countries offering over 50 million tracks and 1.2 million albums from leading music production companies such as Warner Music, Sony Music, and Universal Music. HUAWEI Music is available to download from the HUAWEI AppGallery on a monthly subscription for €9.99 with a 3 month free trial which is available until the 26th April. After the 3 month free trial ends your subscription will automatically […]

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 […]