Web Sheriff
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| Formation | 19 October 2000 |
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| Founder | John Giacobbi |
| Registration no. | 04093131 |
| Purpose | Intellectual property rights |
| Headquarters | Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK |
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Area served
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International |
| Services | Copyright enforcement, digital rights management, website building, hosting and management, video editing |
| Owner | Web Sheriff Limited |
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Director
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John Edouard Giacobbi |
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Secretary
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Robert Arthur Davage |
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Employees
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20 |
| Website | websheriff |
Web Sheriff is an anti-piracy company based in the United Kingdom that provides intellectual property, copyright and privacy rights protection services for clients that include record labels, musical artists, film studios, news media organizations, and celebrities. The company monitors various websites that host links to downloads of music and film. Web Sheriff has been in operation since 2000, with two offices in the UK.
The company was founded by intellectual property lawyer John Giacobbi, who acts as its managing director. Web Sheriff sends legal take-down notice to BitTorrent and other file sharing sites, and also engages with blogs and fansites, negotiating for copyrighted music to be removed, offering fans free official promotional tracks and clips from the artist as replacement for the leaked material. According to the Los Angeles Times, Web Sheriff is a "leading advocate of the soft sell" in the anti-piracy industry.
As an internet copyright protection firm, Web Sheriff performs a wide range of online rights security and copy protection services. These include protection from copyright infringement,libel,cyber-bullying,identity theft privacy issues of social media, stock market share price protection, policing trading sites and recovery of fraudulently registered domain names. It also furnishes online security for concert tours. In addition to online rights protection, the company designs, builds and maintains websites and YouTube channels and provides editing and filming for them. It manufactures watermarked CDs and DVDs
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