The use of illegal IPTV services is on the rise, threatening the production of top-tier Danish football, films, and television. Together with Superligaen A/S, The Rights Alliance now aims to have the most popular IPTV services blocked in Denmark. Through subscriptions...
The Rights Alliance’s work on blocking is further intensified with The Danish League joining, focusing on transmissions of illegal live sports. The Rights Alliance’s efforts and experience in the field of blocking are not only significant for Danish rights holders but...
In the 'UdRet' project, materials have been created in collaboration with several educational institutions to make it easier to guide students to legal use of study books. Lack of consideration for copyright when it comes to purchasing study books is a common theme...
Nicky Valbjørn Trebbien, Head of Legal at Koda, is the new head of the Rights Alliance Board, which is at the same time saying goodbye to Charlotte Enevoldsen, Deputy Director at the Danish Producers' Association, and Kaspar Lindhardt, Legal Advisor at Koda. On...
With the special status as a trusted flagger, online platforms are now obliged to prioritise the Rights Alliance's reports of illegal content In the future, Danish rights holders can look forward to the illegal sharing of their content reported by the Rights Alliance...
As part of the communication platform Genvej.org, the Rights Alliance is launching a new initiative to equip parents to talk to their children about illegal streaming. Many parents don't know if their childen is illegally streaming films, series or sports. Young...
At the end of May, the Dialogue Forum's European presence was strengthened when the Rights Alliance joined the European Commission's cooperation agreement to limit advertising on problematic sites. The Dialogue Forum's efforts to cut off advertising and money flows to...
The Danish Ministry of Culture and the Rights Alliance are calling on Danish companies to join the Dialogue Forum to cut off traffic and money flows to services with infringing content and thereby create a more legal internet. Illegal internet services and websites...
By appointing legal expert in IPR, Juan Rotger, the Danish Rights Alliance strengthens its enforcement efforts with new specialized skills. The Danish Rights Alliance brings in a strong legal expert from abroad who, as part of the enforcement team, will bolster our...
For 10 years the Share With Care collaboration has set a groundbreaking standard for the approach to blocking illegal content and promoting legal consumption. Since 2013, Share With Care has provided a framework for a beneficial collaboration where rights holders,...
Scammers are increasingly abusing famous faces and voices on social media: Rights Alliance can remove voice clones and deepfakes of you Actors, musicians, TV personalities and other celebrities are at particular risk of being misused for scams, fake news and other...
With the takedown of the popular dataset Books3, the Danish Rights Alliance has put an end to illegal copies of Danish and foreign books being used to train artificial intelligence. The use of creative content such as books, music, images and movies for artificial...
Today the Danish Rights Alliance won a blocking case involving the 9 most popular so-called 'stream ripping services' in Denmark. The services, which make it possible to illegally copy and store music from the internet, were ruled illegal and must be blocked by the...
In the fight against illegal copying and distribution of content and design products, the Danish Rights Alliance has hired a new lawyer. On 1 March, the Danish Rights Alliance has employed Lasse Hebsgaard as a lawyer. Lasse comes from a position as a lawyer at the Red...
Since 2013, the Danish Rights Alliance, the Ministry of Culture and the Danish Telecom Industry Association have entered into a collaboration called Share With Care (SWC). The cooperation aims to simply and effectively block illegal websites and guide consumers...
A 33-year-old man, who was arrested in Morocco in October 2020 on the basis of an investigation in which the file-sharing network DanishBits was closed, has been extradited from Morocco. The arrest and extradition show that the international police cooperation is...
Several digital key players have joined forces with the Danish Ministry of Culture and the Danish Rights Alliance to prevent cash flows to illegal online services. The internet enables products and services to be distributed, marketed, and experienced in new ways....
Identity verification on online platforms is an effective way to prevent fraud. Therefore, identity verification is an important focus area for Rights Alliance, which has just signed a letter calling for increased scrutiny at EU level. It must be more difficult to...
Aarhus University has signed a Code of Conduct agreement, and thus undertakes to block the services that have been ruled illegal by a court. 38,000 students, 1,800 PhD students and 8,000 employees. That’s how many users the University of Aarhus offers Internet access...
Wednesday the Danish high court ratified that Rojadirecta, one of the world’s best known live-sports services, is illegal and must be blocked by Danish internet service providers. The ruling enables Denmark to take...
Following a report from Rights Alliance, SØIK has arrested three Danish men in a comprehensive case concerning illegal sale of films and IPTV subscriptions. On June 3rd, authorities in the USA, Canada and Europe, including Denmark, carried out a coordinated action...
The Code of Conduct, which is the focal point for the blocking collaboration between Danish internet providers in the Telecommunications Industry and Rights Alliance, has been revised in order to keep up with developments in the illegal market. In 2013, Rights...
In cooperation with a large number of organizations working to combat illegal Internet sites, Rights Alliance has signed a call for ICANN to ensure the possibility of identifying who is responsible for the illegal sites. Domain names are a vital part of the Internet's...
Last week the European Commission published their "Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List" which aims to protect intellectual property rights of European companies. The Commission’s Watch List takes the same approach as the Danish model in order to raise awareness of...