YNOT – Adult industry trade group Free Speech Coalition on Tuesday will unveil a new service designed to help content producers of all sizes defend their intellectual property from pirates and reclaim revenue from thieves.
Nearly a year in development, the Anti-Piracy Action Program is an all-inclusive effort that not only employs sophisticated spidering and “fingerprinting” software to keep tabs on digital materials, but also compiles tracking data, sends Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices to infringers, and offers legal consultation and litigation services. The program will employ negotiation specialists to work with so-called “tube sites” in order to replace pirated content with revenue-generating trailers that promote legitimate content.
“FSC has been working with producers, distributors, software companies and copyright attorneys to develop a program that will not only work for all companies regardless of size, but also have a significant impact industry-wide on the issue of copyright infringement,” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke said. “We’ve pulled together software company Vobile with one of the adult industry’s most recognized copyright infringement attorneys, Gill Sperlein, under the umbrella of Free Speech Coalition to provide a strategic, effective, cost-efficient program and put the adult industry in the forefront in resolving the issue of piracy.”
Adult industry technology experts Avi Bitton of Wicked Pictures and Tony Rios of Channel 1 Releasing were instrumental in researching, testing and helping to select the tracking software, Duke added.
The program is available only to FSC members. Monthly fees, “starting at a few hundred dollars a month,” are based on the amount of content tracked, Duke said. The sliding fee scale means even small production companies can afford to participate, she added.
The FSC will host a roundtable discussion about the program during the general membership meeting scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Feb. 11 in Los Angeles.
