Digital Piracy Facts for Designing Infographics

I'm researching some Digital Piracy fact so I can create some infographics to include in my project.

Here are my findings -

'Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes.'

[VIA http://www.riaa.com/faq.php]

'IPSOS SURVEY 2007 - Latest figures from the annual IPSOS survey show that the total loss to the whole audio visual industry through copyright theft, including file sharing, home burning and borrowing other people’s fake DVDs is £486million. The criminal gain from DVD piracy is £200 million at street prices.'

[VIA http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/site/media_centre/dvd_seiz_0405.htm]

More information - http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/site/media_centre/documents/2006_05_03leksumm.pdf

Fact Seizure Figures and Analysis

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
VHS	98371	136871	83387	87462	11067	2520	2205	1106
DVD	9245	89723	337617	1618203	2391398	804162	142214	115021
DVD-R	0	0	93995	195256	538943	1273120	1404681	2707111
VCD	46658	87337	164499	126810	43874	743	1188	211
TOTAL	154274	313931	679498	2027731	2985282	2080545	1546895	2823449

[VIA http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/site/media_centre/dvd_seiz_0405.htm]

'The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) estimates there were 890 million free illegal music downloads through file sharing networks in the UK in 2007, compared with 140 million paid downloads' [VIA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1189509/Illegal-file-sharing-downloads-cost-thousands-British-jobs-year.html]

'99% of the UK's singles market is now digital. The growth of this format has provided fantastic flexibility for consumers and great opportunities for the music business to innovate. The format has its challenges, in the main because of the proliferation of unpaid for and unlicensed online digital file-sharing. Online copyright infringement cost the UK music community an estimated £200m in 2009 - this is money that should have gone to those who created the music and into developing new musical talent.' [VIA http://www.bpi.co.uk/category/digital-music.aspx]

Lots of facts and figures in this report too - http://www.bva.org.uk/files/images/AV_Piracy_Final_Report_-_FINAL.pdf

Facts from http://www.allianceagainstiptheft.co.uk/facts_figures.html -

• Audio visual industry lost £531m in 2008
• Music industry losing £165m annually from physical piracy
• Music industry lost £180m from online piracy in 2008
• Music industry projected to lose £1.2 billion from online piracy 2007-2012
• Counterfeit clothing and footwear costing legitimate businesses £3.5bn annually
• Business software industry losing £1bn annually
• Criminal gain from fake clothing and footwear: £3bn
• Criminal gain from DVDs: £200m
• Games software industry estimates losses at £350m annually
• 23% of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises have had their business significantly affected by IP crime
• 40% of businesses surveyed by IPCG took no practical action such as trade mark registration or employee training to ensure their and others IP is protected

Digital Music and Movies Report filled with facts - http://newsroom.mcafee.com/images/10039/DMMRReport_US_25Aug2010.pdf

Now it's about finding the best ones and making some nice looking infographics with them. The clock's ticking!

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