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Europe’s creatives welcome copyright remuneration vote

The European Parliament Industry and Culture committees has voted in favour of an unwaivable right to fair remuneration for authors and performers for the making available of their works. Supported by the European audiovisual authors’ community, such a remuneration right would ensure that screenwriters and directors receive royalties when their works are exploited on on-demand […]

July 12, 2017

CNN, Hulu content deal

CNN and Hulu have struck a new content deal for six series and two films produced by the network.  This is the first such deal between CNN and Hulu for CNN Films, the network’s brand for non-fiction documentaries, and the second deal with CNN Original Series, the network’s brand for non-fiction series content. “We are […]

July 11, 2017

SuperSport acquires Olympics rights

SuperSport has acquired pay-TV media rights in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa for the next two Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. This renewed partnership with the International Olympic Committee will take in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and the Olympic Games in […]

July 11, 2017

HBO, Cinemax join Hulu

HBO has struck a deal with Hulu that will see its content and services offered as an add-on for the US streaming service. HBO, along with Cinemax, can now be added to Hulu’s existing subscription. HBO will cost $15 (€13.14) per month and Cinemax will cost $10 per month, on top of Hulu’s subscription fees. […]

July 7, 2017

Bundesliga for UPC’s MySports

UPC has secured the distribution rights for the German football Bundesliga for its MySports channel by entering into a partnership with Sky Deutschland. The deal kicks of with the upcoming season. Steffi Buchli, Director of Programming, MySports: “I am thrilled that as a new sports channel we can now also offer our customers this highlight […]

July 7, 2017

Russia expects to pay $40m for 2018 World Cup rights

A group of major Russian television channels expects to pay up to $40 million (€35.2m) to buy the rights for broadcasting 2018 FIFA World Cup matches, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has revealed, according to Russian news agency TASS. “We have been announced the figure of $110 million for the World Cup broadcasting rights,” […]

July 6, 2017By Colin Mann

Report: Steady growth for US M&E industry

The US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration has issued a report describing the steady growth of the US media and entertainment (M&E) industry. The US M&E market is the world’s largest, by far, and is projected to reach $771 billion (€679bn) in annual sales in 2019, an increase of 8.3 per cent from $712 […]

July 5, 2017By Colin Mann

Egyptian content pirates sentenced

Digital platform security specialist Irdeto and video entertainment services provider MultiChoice Africa Limited (MAL) have confirmed that three content pirates have been sentenced in Cairo, Egypt. The sentencing follows multiple piracy raids which uncovered a large cybercrime syndicate illegally offering premium content services. The three defendants were found guilty on all criminal charges and were […]

July 5, 2017By Colin Mann

Spain: RTVE to charge pay-TV operators for its content

RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, is seeking to get more money from pay-TV operators by forcing them to pay for its TV series and movies they offer through its catch-up and VoD services. Currently, the pay-TV operators are distributing RTVE content for free, and are also offering the content to be recorded and watched later […]

July 4, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

BT Sport scores European rugby rights

BT Sport is to become the home of the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup in the UK and Ireland, having secured the rights to broadcast all of the tournaments’ matches live. The new deal, starting from the 2018/19 season, will see BT Sport showing all of the best European Club […]

July 4, 2017