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Education key to copyright safeguarding
The changing UK film and TV piracy landscape has been revealed in figures were released for the CREATe Industry Copyright Education & Awareness Symposium , where key stakeholders from across the creative industries joined representatives from government and academia to discuss industry best practice in winning the hearts and minds of consumers through copyright education campaigns .
The event saw policymakers , rights holders , educators and industry bodies from the worlds of film , TV , music and publishing debate and discuss the importance of research and evidence in supporting effective copyright education and agree on how evidence and best practice can enhance industry efforts in the face of an ever evolving and often complex landscape .
While the majority of consumers do the right thing by choosing to pay for authorised content or watching authorised content for free via sites such as BBC iPlayer , figures revealed by pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness show that 23 % of those aged 16 + admit to accessing unauthorised film and TV content in the last year .
The research comes from The Industry Trust ’ s annual campaign tracker conducted by ICM , which has been tracking trends in consumer behaviour and attitudes around authorised and unauthorised film and TV content alongside campaign evaluation since
move more of their viewing online .
2015 was a record year for the audiovisual industry and digital services saw a tipping point as consumers took their love affair with film and TV content to a new level . Across the board digital services are blooming as consumers increasingly adopt the ever growing ways to watch at home and on the go . But such technological
advances also present new threats as audiences are lured by the temptation of free content , or in some cases duped into using what they think are legitimate sites .
The motivators for those intentionally
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“ Consumers are accessing more content across all formats than ever before .”
2011 . Whilst it shows UK film and TV piracy remains static , with the proportion of people accessing content illegally unchanged since 2014 , there ’ s no cause for industry complacency .
A closer look at the figures shows that the face of piracy is changing . Young men still make up the core group of infringers , but the gender gap is closing , and there ’ s also a spike in younger people , aged 11- 15 , accessing more illegal content as they accessing illegal film and TV sites remain the same as ever – with ease of access ( 48 %), price ( 46 %), and social acceptability or the perception that they ’ re not doing anything wrong ( 26 %) given as the top three reasons for accessing content illegally .
Conversely , the motivators for choosing official paid for content are the big screen experience ( 36 %), better quality ( 33 %) and having a shared experience ( 28 %).
It ’ s insights like these that continue to be a focus for consumer education campaigns run by The Industry Trust such as the successful Moments Worth Paying For trailers and FindAnyFilm . com – the industry-funded film and TV search engine .
“ We have been providing industry leading consumer insights on what motivates people to infringe copyright for the past ten years . In order to create copyright education campaigns that actually change behaviour , we have to see things through the eye of the consumer and providing compelling evidence and research is key to this ,” commented Liz Bales , chief executive of The Industry Trust for IP Awareness .
“ Consumers are accessing more content across all formats than ever before showing the value they place on film and TV content . Some people are duped into using pirate sites due to confusion over what is and isn ’ t legal , while others intentionally set out to access unauthorised content . Infringers are still huge film and TV fans , so it ’ s incredibly important we use education to encourage moderation of their behaviour , instead of alienating them by pointing the finger . Crucially as an industry we need to be continuously nudging and signposting all audiences towards sources of legal content as they migrate their viewing online ,” she stated .
Encouragingly , The Industry Trust ’ s activities continue to successfully reach its key audiences , with almost half ( 49 %) of 16-34-year-old males recognising the Moments Worth Paying For campaign and 25 % recognising FindAnyFilm . com .
“ The Industry Trust puts insight and evidence at the heart of its decisionmaking , and since ICM came on board in 2011 , we have kept a consistent measure of consumer behaviour and campaign effectiveness ,” noted Laura Byrne , research manager at ICM Unlimited . “ During that time , recognition of the Moments Worth Paying For campaign has grown incrementally and has achieved significant cut through with the target audience , encouraging their growing uptake of paidfor authorised content .”
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