The entertainment industry is arguing that business models predicated on the theft of intellectual property should be declared illegal.

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It should be illegal, she declared, for museums to purchase classical statuary whose provenance was unclear.

ECONOMIST: The hypocrisies of the antiquities world

The MEPs rejected a proposal that farmers could be paid twice over for helping wildlife - a plan declared illegal by the Commission.

BBC: Euro MPs reject radical CAP farm subsidy reforms