According to the 2018 How Google Fights Piracy report, the company has invested $100 million in building Content ID, its rights management tool, leading to over 3 billion URLs being removed from Search for infringing copyright. Writing in Google’s Public Policy blog, Cedric Manara, Head of Copyright, notes that the Internet has enabled people worldwide […]
As the latest premium game titles become increasingly anticipated by consumers looking to play, data from Irdeto reveals that if a AAA title is pirated upon its launch, publishers can expect hundreds of thousands of downloads of illegal copies, resulting in massive revenue loss, according to research from digital platform security specialist Irdeto, who monitored […]
Discovery, the PGA Tour and Jupiter Golf Network, a subsidiary of Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), Japan’s largest operator of cable television and programme supply business, have announced a partnership will see live PGA Tour coverage featured on Golf Network, as well as the ambition to develop a broader digital ecosystem leveraging GOLFTV’s invigorated digital content to […]
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of parts of 21st Century Fox by Disney. The decision is conditional on full compliance with commitments offered by Disney. The deal was cleared by US regulators at the end of June 2018. Disney and Fox are two of the six major […]
Nearly 60 per cent of Netflix members on a global basis enjoy kids and family content every month, so the company has unveiled what it describes as a “robust” slate of animated event programming – both feature films and original series – designed to give kids and families around the world more of what they […]
Snap has agreed a deal with independent factual production company Barcroft Media to bring eight of its digital series to its mobile sharing app Snapchat. Five new TV series — Ridiculous Rides, Snapped in the Wild, Beast Buddies, Born Different and Shake My Beauty — are already available already to Snapchat users across the globe. […]
CreativeFuture, a grass-roots coalition which unites those who value American creativity and innovation in the fight against content theft, has sent a letter to all candidates running for Federal office in the forthcoming midterm elections. Over 400 prominent members from the creative communities have signed the letter – joining over 100,000 others who signed the […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has directed the BBC to conduct a ‘public interest test’ (PIT) to assess properly the value and potential impact on other broadcasters of a number of changes to the BBC iPlayer the Corporation wishes to make, having provided its plans to Ofcom for consideration. In order to protect fair and effective […]
UK pay-TV broadcasters Sky and Virgin TV have secured rights to air this year’s MTV EMAs 2018 in ultra-HD. The MTV EMAs 2018 celebrates musical artists from around the world and will broadcast live from Bilbao, Spain, across MTV’s 60 international TV channels and digital platforms. Sky will take the MTV EMAs UHD feed for […]
According to US pay-TV services DISH and Sling TV, AT&T has made what they describe as an “unprecedented” move to pull HBO and Cinemax content from their subscribers, after making “untenable” demands designed specifically to harm customers, particularly those in rural areas, as well as damage competing pay-TV providers. They say that despite an opposing […]