Premium entertainment streaming platform Hulu and NBCUniversal have reached a comprehensive, new distribution agreement that will bring NBC and Telemundo Owned Television Stations and portfolio of leading cable networks to Hulu’s upcoming new live TV streaming service when it launches in the Spring of 2017. The deal will provide live and on-demand streaming access to […]
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released the 2017 ‘Special 301’ Report, reviewing global developments on trade and intellectual property (IP) and identifying trading partners with harmful records on protection, enforcement, or market
Former US Senator Christopher Dodd, Chairman & CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is to step down from his position as CEO on September 4th and from his position as Chairman at the end of the year. The MPAA board has named Charles Rivkin, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic […]
Australia’s Federal Court has handed down its judgment in Universal Music Australia & Ors v TPG & Ors (the KickassTorrents case). The case began in April 2016, when Universal, along with several other members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and the Australasian music collecting society APRA|AMCOS, filed an application seeking to have access […]
Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic, a division of Discovery Communications, and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm and main subsidiary of the BBC) have announced a first look deal for the factual, lifestyle, natural history and motor programming categories, through which Discovery’s networks will become the home to many of the BBC’s most popular titles. As […]
Philippine multi-play operator PLDT is introducing the next generation of its TVolution streaming box for its customers. PLDT worked with streaming pioneer Roku to deliver to its customers a fully-proven solution that is easy to use and loaded with “great” content. “Filipinos will be the first in Asia to stream the best in entertainment using […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the sale of a multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the Internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright, suggesting that the temporary reproduction on a multimedia player of a […]
Though digital piracy has experienced a slight decrease in Spain in terms of absolute figures, the percentage of citizens accessing pirate content has remained the same or even increased for some sectors such as music and leisure books (e-readers). In 2016, there were 4.128 billion illegal accesses to content, 4.2 per cent less that in […]
Just shy of five million people in the UK use pirated TV streaming services, according to YouGov. The research firm’s new study, Illegal Streaming, suggests that 10 per cent of the population (around 4.9 million adults) currently have access to platforms such as ‘illegal’ Kodi boxes (i.e., those with software that has been changed with […]
Hulu and NEON have signed a new, multi-year output licensing agreement for all upcoming films and content released via NEON. The deal marks the first of its kind for NEON, and will expand Hulu’s growing offering of new acclaimed films with all of NEON’S future titles becoming available to stream exclusively on Hulu following their […]