Date:14/09/11
The U.K. government this week will press search-engine giant Google Inc. and other companies in the sector to do more to block copyright-infringing websites, the Financial Times reports Tuesday.
Citing extracts of a speech to be given Wednesday by U.K. Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the paper reported he will say that search engines, advertisers and credit-card companies should take "reasonable steps" to "make life more difficult" for sites that flout copyright.
It adds the government will legislate in a forthcoming Communications Bill to resolve the situation if no industry-led solution can be found.
"We intend to take measures to make it more and more difficult to access sites that deliberately facilitate infringement, misleading consumers and depriving creators of a fair reward for their creativity," Hunt is expected to tell the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention, according to the FT report.
UK govt to press Google to do more to block rogue sites
The U.K. government this week will press search-engine giant Google Inc. and other companies in the sector to do more to block copyright-infringing websites, the Financial Times reports Tuesday. Citing extracts of a speech to be given Wednesday by U.K. Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the paper reported he will say that search engines, advertisers and credit-card companies should take "reasonable steps" to "make life more difficult" for sites that flout copyright.
It adds the government will legislate in a forthcoming Communications Bill to resolve the situation if no industry-led solution can be found.
"We intend to take measures to make it more and more difficult to access sites that deliberately facilitate infringement, misleading consumers and depriving creators of a fair reward for their creativity," Hunt is expected to tell the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Convention, according to the FT report.
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