The Digital Economy ActMeasures to tackle online copyright infringement

Ofcom 15th April 2010

Programme

1. Introduce & Welcome Ed Richards

2. Workplan & timetable Campbell Cowie

3. Workstreams and Q&A Peter Phillips

The Digital Economy Act

The Act creates two new responsibilities for ISPs:

1. ISPs must notify subscribers of allegations made by copyright owners that their accounts have been used for unlawful filesharing.

2. ISPs must maintain lists, in an anonymised format, of subscribers who have received multiple notifications. Copyright owners can seek a court order to secure details on those subscribers and may pursue targeted legal action.

Ofcom is required to make a code to give effect to these responsibilities, create an independent appeals body and provide reports to the Secretary of State on the impact of a range of measures.

May June July August

Code statement

Ofcom Tariff SettingBIS cost consultation

Research tender

September October November December

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Write Code

Code consultation(May-July)

DEA implementation milestones to January 2011

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Code Made

January

Tariff Consultation

Tariff statement

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Appointment of the appeals body (incl. public consultation)Dispute resolution and enforcement procedures (incl. public consultation)

Baseline report

EU Review(Sep – Dec)

Parliament approval

Appeals guidelines

Dispute resolution and enforcement

guidelines

Develop approach

Consumer research commissionedEvaluate and commission tech measurement

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Develop Scheme operations – Inc. finance and IS

Institutions

Phase 1Set up phase

Overview of workstreams

Code writing

Tariff setting

Develop measurement & reports

Phase 3Scheme up and running

Scheme Live

Measurement & reports

Phase 2Soft launch

Soft launch

The senior project team

Tariff setting: Jeremy Olivier T: 020 7981 3512 , email: jeremy.olivier@ofcom.org.uk

Appeals: Kristina Glushkova T: 0207 981 3767, email: kristina.glushkova@ofcom.org.uk

Code: Chris Rowsell T: 020 7783 4176, email: christopher.rowsell@ofcom.org.uk

Technology: David Harrison T: 020 7981 3794, email: david.mark.harrison@ofcom.org.uk

Measurement: Samuel Carter T: 020 7981 3510, email: samuel.carter@ofcom.org.uk Justin Le Patourel T: 0207 981 3487, email: Justin.LePatourel@ofcom.org.uk

Project Director: Campbell Cowie T: 0207 981 3256, email: campbell.cowie@ofcom.org.uk

Overall responsibility: Peter Phillips T:020 7981 3697, email:peter.phillips@ofcom.org.uk