Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Sky Italia €7 million for failing to provide “clear and immediate” information to potential subscribers that it did not have all Serie A’s games in its football package this season. From this season, streaming platform DAZN has been airing three out of the ten weekly matches, leaving Sky Italia with […]
Qatar-based beIN Media Group is gaining increasing support from major sport and entertainment broadcasters in the US for its anti-piracy drive against beoutQ. beoutQ fills 10 channels of mostly beIN Media pirated content. beIN Media is also asking US authorities to place Saudi Arabia on its important ‘priority watch list’ because of the Kingdom’s alleged […]
Members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy – have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Central California (Western Division) against OmniverseOne World Television, Inc. and its owner, Jason M. DeMeo, for violating […]
The European Commission has reached an agreement on new copyright rules, including the controversial Article 13 requiring internet platfroms to obtain authorisation from rights holders at the point of posting. The EC stressed its objective is to “reinforce the position of creators and right holders,” in getting properly remunerated for the online use of their […]
Eurosport, Discovery’s premium sports brand, has extended its partnership with the English Premier League in Romania for another three seasons, starting 2019-2020. The agreement will see Eurosport in Romania hold exclusive TV and digital rights to England’s top-tier competition until 2022, with fans able to enjoy local commentary, Premier League highlights, as well as access […]
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and SKAI Group have announced a new agreement to broadcast WWE’s flagship programmes Raw and SmackDown in Greece. Every week beginning March 2nd, SKAI TV will air a two-hour version of Raw on Saturdays and SmackDown on Sundays, both with Greek commentary. These shows will also be available for catch-up viewing on […]
Premier single-seater race series Formula 1 has announced a new two-year agreement with Sky Deutschland that will see Sky broadcast all Grand Prix weekends live across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile in Germany and Austria, along with German-language rights in Switzerland, for 2019 and 2020. As a result, subscribers with the Sky Sport Pack […]
beIN Sports has opted out of bidding for the Formula One television rights in the Middle East region. Liberty Media, which owns the Formula One series, says that it is in discussion with another MENA broadcaster. A new 5-year deal was on the table but beIN says that the continued piracy by Saudi Arabia and […]
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), an international not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to innovation and enhancing society’s access to information and communications, has called on the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to fight against what it suggests are ‘protectionist’ European IP policies. With Europe poised to enact additional copyright policies that the CCIA says […]
Aleksander Čeferin, President of European football’s governing body UEFA, has confirmed that it is to launch a streaming service. In an acceptance speech following his unanimous re-election at the 43rd Ordinary UEFA Congress, Čeferin informed delegates that UEFA would launch its own OTT platform, provisionally named UEFA TV, in the next six months. It is […]