Internet Watch Foundation

 

On May 16^th, the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport published the findings of its inquiry into new media and the creative industries.  The report cited the IWF notice-and-take-down model as best practice.

 

The executive summary of the report recommended that ‘internet service providers and search businesses, whose growth is driven in large part by the availability of audio visual content, should be doing much more to prevent piracy, for instance by establishing an industry-funded body to address the problem similar to the Internet Watch Foundation.’