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MEPs vote against copyright directive

Members of the European Parliament, gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg, have rejected the negotiation mandate on the copyright directive. This mandate was to bring the text proposal (as drafted by the relevant committee (JURI ) at a final negotiation stage. French-speaking authors’ society LaScam, along with the whole creative industry throughout Europe, it claims, […]

July 6, 2018By Colin Mann

UK youngsters boost legal content consumption

Figures published by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) show that UK consumers are more willing to pay for online content through subscription services. While overall levels of piracy remain the same compared to 2017, there has been a drop in illegal activity by some groups. This is especially true amongst young consumers, with over […]

July 5, 2018By Colin Mann

Spain: Mediaset fails to profit from World Cup rights

The early exit of Spain’s National team is having a hugely negative impact on Mediaset Spain which hoped to benefit from the World Cup TV rights. The company paid over €40 million for FTA broadcast rights all the matches. It aimed to get between €2.5 and 3 million per broadcast match of the National team, […]

July 4, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

French online piracy: €1.18bn hit

Consultancy firm EY has published the second edition of its study on online content piracy in France (Piratage en France), which aims to assess the shortfall related to the illegal consumption of audiovisual content in France. The study quantifies the impacts of piracy on the state budget, direct jobs, the financing of creativity and lastly […]

July 4, 2018By Colin Mann

Facebook to stream live boxing

Golden Boy Promotions is launching a partnership with Facebook to bring live boxing and original programming to a global community of fans on the social media platform. The first of five live fight nights on Facebook will debut on August 11th and will feature Jesus Rojas defending his WBA World Featherweight Title against Joseph “JoJo “Diaz […]

July 3, 2018

Amazon to bid for La Liga rights

After acquiring a package of 20 football matches from the England Premier League, industry observers have predicted that Amazon will turn its attention to the Spanish market and seek to acquire minority lots of La Liga football TV rights over the next three seasons. La Liga has four lots of football TV rights for sale […]

July 2, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

Virgin TV serves up 4K Wimbledon finals

UK multiplay operator Virgin Media will be giving its customers the opportunity to watch the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s finals from the Championships at Wimbledon in 4K Ultra High Definition through Eurosport. Virgin TV customers with a V6 TV box will be able to watch both finals in Ultra High Definition for the very first time. […]

July 2, 2018

Irdeto: Brazil matches ‘most-pirated’

Digital platform security specialist Irdeto has detected 5,088 unique illegal streams redistributing games over the Internet during the group stage of the 2018 World Cup. The bookies’ favourites, Brazil won the unwanted moniker of most-pirated team, with more than 582 illegal streams detected for its three group stage matches. Brazil was followed by Morocco (561 […]

July 2, 2018By Colin Mann

DISH: Univision retrans impasse

DISH, operator of DishLATINO and Sling TV, has confirmed that negotiations with Univision Communications have reached an apparent impasse following what it describes as “untenable” demands by the programmer and by Univision’s abrupt departure from the negotiating table. As a result, certain services went ‘dark’ on June 30th Suggesting that Univision is asking more for […]

July 2, 2018

TalkTalk, Hopster content deal

Hopster, the preschool learning and entertainment app, has partnered with TalkTalk, the UK telco, to bring  the kids SVoD service to  TalkTalk TV. TalkTalk is the first UK TV provider to make Hopster content directly available as part of its Kids TV subscription.  In addition to ten of the UK’s biggest kids’ channels, TalkTalk TV […]

July 2, 2018