UK parents forced to pay for children who swap music
Publish date: 17 March 2005
Issue Number: 1298
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Copyright
A landmark settlement has been reached in a British court which will mean that parents whose children illegally swap music over the Internet could be fined.
British record labels, reports The Telegraph, said 23 people who shared thousands of tracks unlawfully were forced to pay compensation totalling £50 000. Among those fined were a councillor, an IT director and parents of children who had used peer-to-peer music sharing Web sites. Some had put 9 000 songs on the Internet for others to share. In at least two cases, the parents had no idea that their children were using the family computer to swap thousands of songs with strangers. Full report in The Telegraph
