Al Jazeera, Russia Today the Telegraph Media Group and VICE are amongst the global media companies to have recently launched dedicated channels on Dailymotion, the world’s second largest video portal. Al Jazeera’s English and Arabic live news channels have now launched on Dailymotion. Under the deal, Dailymotion will live stream the two news channels. Al […]
CASBAA and international media and technology law firm Olswang have launched Singapore’s first online directory of digital content available from legitimate sources. The pilot directory is available to all at finddigitaltv.com and allows users to search for content by genre, device or just search for content that is free. The directory is being launched in […]
Richard O’Dwyer, the UK student behind TVShack, which linked TV shows and films online for free, has reached an agreement to avoid extradition to the US over copyright infringement. The 24-year-old Sheffield student is to sign a “deferred prosecution” agreement in the past and will travel to the US where it be ratified. He will […]
Local TV stations that broadcast with no legal licence are proliferating in Spain without local, regional or national administrations doing anything to put an end to a practice that jeopardises the whole DTT market. Several organisations, such as the Audio Visual Council in Andalucia (CAA) or in Catalonia (AAC), have warned that the number of […]
Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO, of the Motion Picture Association of America, says that copyright protection is more important than ever in the light of a viral Facebook post which falsely raises concerns about whether the copyright protection policy for the social media site’s users is being altered and describes how people can stop it. […]
The shutdown of popular file hosting platform Megaupload.com on January 19th of this year may have resulted in a negative impact on box office revenues, according to an academic study – Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload – carried out by the Munich School of Management and Copenhagen Business School. The authors, Christian Peukert […]
A strong digital infrastructure is a key factor in supporting Europe’s cultural and creative sector, according to Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda. Speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels to update Culture Committee on the Commission’s work, Kroes said that with Europe facing difficult times, the creative industries […]
ITN, ITV and C4’s news provider, has launched TruthLoader — a YouTube channel that will carry amateur coverage of hotspots around the world and whose investigations will be led by discussion a dedicated discussion group on the Reddit community. TruthLoader is funded by YouTube’s originals programme (which gives UK producers up to £500,000) and brings […]
Netflix and Warner Bros International Television Distribution have agreed an exclusive licensing deal allowing Netflix members in Canada instantly to watch previous seasons of serialised dramas and feature films from Warner Bros. The first two seasons of The Vampire Diaries, the hit teen supernatural drama, are now available on Netflix Canada, with season three following […]
BT has launched a brand new VoD channel on BT Vision dedicated exclusively to the British Museum, the UK’s leading visitor attraction. The on demand channel will be available to all BT TV customers at no extra charge regardless of which package they are on. The channel will show films produced by the British Museum […]