Kudelski Group subsidiary OpenTV has filed a patent infringement suit against NFL Enterprises in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The lawsuit alleges that NFL infringes seven US patents owned by OpenTV and identifies the infringing products and services as NFL’s streaming, interactive video content experience provided on NFL.com and […]
UK Internet users who download TV and films illegally may shortly receive letters or emails from their Internet Service Provider (ISP) regarding the use of their broadband connection ‘to share copyrighted material’. Users who use Torrent websites and software to download shows will be targeted, rather than anyone who streams videos. Letters will start being […]
Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear in a Dallas court to defend his company over claims it stole virtual reality technology. Zenimax Media, owner of renowned games studio id Software, is suing Facebook for a potential $2 billion. Zenimax argued its early innovations in VR were unlawfully copied when Oculus built its own […]
Adult videos and pirate content are secretly being hidden on YouTube. According to a report by TorrentFreak, pirates are using the site’s video hosting services to host the videos. YouTube has rules banning both sexual content and pirated videos, meaning that none of the videos should be available on the site. But many pirates have […]
The head of pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness has warned of the risks of pirating film, TV and sports content through unauthorised apps, suggesting that parents who engage in digital TV piracy have no idea of the associated risks to their families. Writing for the Huffington Post, Liz Bales CEO of […]
The contentious auction of TV broadcast licences must be re-held as soon as possible, according to Greece’s Council of State, in a statement on January 13th. The previous auction, held in September, and which reduced from eight to four the number of channels permitted to transmit (and which had raised €246 million) was declared null […]
CASBAA, the Association of Asia’s pay-TV Industry, has applauded the judicial review now underway in India of proposed extension and tightening of India’s pay-TV rate regulations. The Madras High Court is currently reviewing the clash between the rights of copyright owners around the world and new tariff regulations proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of […]
January 11th saw officers from the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) visit organisations found to be advertising on websites involved in digital piracy. Officers from the unit visited eight organisations including brands, advertising agencies and networks, as part of a multi-agency initiative known as Operation Creative, which sees the police working […]
Jo Johnson MP, the UK’s Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation in the Department for Education, has added Intellectual Property to his portfolio of responsibilities. The role will be shared with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He takes over from previous incumbent Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, who was appointed Commercial […]
AptoVision, Aquantia, Christie Digital, NETGEAR, Sony and ZeeVee announced that they have formed the SDVoE Alliance to standardise the adoption of Ethernet to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, and to create an ecosystem around SDVoE technology that allows software to define AV applications. All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency, uncompromised […]