With Japan the Country of Honour at this year’s MIPCOM, anime, the country’s flagpole format, once again becomes a major acquisition focus for the film and television market across three days in the Palais de Festivals. In this special report for the market, content protection, data-analytics and piracy audience reconnection solutions provider MUSO is reporting […]
Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and The Walt Disney Company have launched a collaboration on the animated feature film, Moana, in the latest instalment in the ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign. The 35” trailer, will run across cinema screens nationwide and features Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson – who voices Maui […]
The MPAA has formally submitted comments to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) identifying some of the world’s most notorious markets for the distribution of infringing film and television content. According to Anissa Brennan, Senior Vice President, International Affairs and Trade Policy, the filing is a sobering reminder of the scope and scale […]
An estimated 220,000 households in Portugal watch pay-TV illegally, an increase of 20,000 compared to 2014, according to figures obtained by local newspapers. The economic crisis is the main reason for the growth in illegal access, as the price of pay-TV packages in general, dropped in the same period. Consumers pay around €10 to receive […]
Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football to commercial premises have been ordered by the court to pay close to £1 million (€1.14m) – which will go back into the ‘public purse’. The individuals behind the company Digicams, Simon Hopkins and Leon Passlow, were found guilty of supplying a variety of systems […]
A California man has sentenced by a US Federal Court for criminal copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies – The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie – to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, The Revenant was available for download six days before its limited release in […]
The world’s biggest record labels are suing a website that allows users to download the audio from YouTube music videos. Universal, Sony, Warner Bros and others launched legal action against the German operator of YouTube-mp3.org in a federal court in Los Angeles. They are seeking damages from the company and its owner that include $150,000 […]
A UK legal case against video-streaming set-tops that can access subscription content for free, begins this week. So-called “fully-loaded Kodi boxes” have gained popularity, but the legality of their sale is in question. North East trader Brian Thompson is accused of selling equipment that “facilitated the circumvention” of copyright protection measures, reports the BBC. Thompson […]
Following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), the Designated Premises Supervisor of the Bay Horse Hotel in the northern England city of Leeds has been convicted and ordered to pay more than £10,000 (€11,551) in fines and costs for showing Sky Sports illegally in the premises. On 15th September 2016 at […]
As part of the latest ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign spearheaded by pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, world-famous YouTube superstars KSI and Caspar Lee have released a short video to encourage audiences to spend their money on watching their comedy Laid in America. The exclusive 55” trailer features the two hugely […]