Grassroots members and European parliamentarians in the UK’s coalition Liberal Democrat party want it to repeal the controversial online piracy sections of the UK’s Digital Economy Act, which was devised to combat unauthorised downloading of digital content.

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will fire the starting gun on the race to turn Britain’s internet “not spots” into hot spots this week by allocating a £530 ($864.74) million fund for broadband-starved communities. Cornish fishing villages, Welsh valleys and Cumbrian farmsteads will all have access to high-speed internet within four…

Vince Cable, the business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to block illegal filesharing websites under the controversial Digital Economy Act are in effect unworkable.

David Cameron is to resist calls for international regulation of the web by Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit. The French president will table proposals for controls on the internet on the first day of the conference of world leaders in Deauville, Normandy.

A report for the UK government has advised against implementing a U.S.-style “fair use” copyright policy, which Google had lobbied for and many content owners had opposed. But it does suggest creating a “Digital Copyright Exchange” to make licensing of content easier. And it urges ministers to finally decriminalise consumer…

The UK’s stalled graduated-response anti-piracy legislation is now more likely to come to fruition, after two of the leading ISPs failed in their bid to have the law overturned.

UK government plans to curb illegal filesharing could be delayed for at least a year as its most contentious measures are battled out in the high court.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and large media owners have submitted opposing responses to the digitally-focused review of the UK’s intellectual property framework.

Channel 4 confirmed on Thursday that it had submitted an expression of interest in the proposed national TV network that underpins Jeremy Hunt’s plan to deliver local news.

UK media regulator Ofcom has been asked by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to review one part of anti-piracy law in the country’s Digital Economy Act “to assess whether (it) could work”. That part is a clause which would allow courts, at rightsholders’ behest, to level injunctions forcing ISPs to block…

A coalition of rights holders including the Premier League and trade bodies representing the music, film and TV industries is lining up to intervene against internet service providers in the judicial review of legislation to tackle illegal downloading.

Hardly anyone thinks culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has got his recipe right for UK local TV and IPTV channels. Panelists at Wednesday’s Westminster Media Forum, a discussion event supported by parliament, lined up to unload their scepticism…

Introducing a new localism to media, per a UK government action plan released Wednesday morning, may be a worthwhile aim - but culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has picked the wrong medium to start with, a decision that could be ultimately self-defeating.

The review commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) in to intellectual property in the digital age is due to be handed to the department’s secretary of state Vince Cable and chancellor George Osborne in April, under its terms of reference.

Didn’t we predict that the government’s new intellectual property review would see a replay of all the entrenched dogma that was flung in Digital Britain’s direction?

Freeview should be used as an initial “transitional platform” to carry local TV services in a handful of areas, until they can flourish all over the UK on IPTV devices, says the review of the market carried out for the UK government.

After this month having to abort sending warnings to 25,000 BT (NYSE: BT) broadband customers it suspected of illegally downloading its music, Ministry Of Sound is now trying to identify unauthorised use of its material in web videos.

Three Wednesday announcements mean the UK’s approach to digital copyright infringement may be majorly halted and started over, despite months of wrangling over controversial legislation. 1) ISPs BT (NYSE: BT) and TalkTalk have been granted a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, which was passed by the last, Labour…