A research study in the International Journal of Business Environment suggests that content providers must take a pragmatic view based on social consensus to persuade illicit downloaders that their behaviour is economically and ethically unacceptable behaviour among their peer group or other social group to which they belong. According to Eva Hofmann of the Centre […]
File-sharing site TorrentFreak has analysed the most-pirated TV shows of 2016 through BitTorrent, with Game of Thrones claiming the dubious honour for the fifth year in a row. The site reports that traffic-wise, the interest was roughly on par with 2015. The highest number of people actively sharing an episode across several torrents was 350,000 […]
Premium entertainment streaming service Hulu has reached its first licensing agreement for theatrical features with The Walt Disney Studios. The new, multi-year deal grants Hulu the exclusive subscription video on-demand rights to a collection of hit movies and family favourites from Disney’s library of blockbuster films. Through the agreement, Hulu becomes the exclusive subscription video […]
United States Trade Representative Michael Froman has revealed the findings of the Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets for 2016, which highlights specific physical and online markets around the world that are reported to be engaging in and facilitating substantial copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting. This activity harms the American economy by undermining the […]
Nokia has filed a number of complaints against Apple in Germany and the US, alleging that Apple products infringe a number of Nokia patents. Following the acquisition of full ownership of NSN in 2013 and Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, Nokia now owns three valuable portfolios of intellectual property. It says that built on more than €115 […]
Eurosport has reached agreement with the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) to screen the Bundesliga exclusively live in Austria, Switzerland as well as German-speaking territories Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and the South Tyrol region from the 2017-18 season. The new agreement will see Eurosport televise 40 Bundesliga matches live per season. Eurosport will broadcast the match in the […]
The Australian Copyright Council – an independent, non-profit organisation which represents the trade bodies for professional artists and content creators working in Australia’s creative industries and Australia’s major copyright collecting societies – has criticised the Productivity Commission’s Final Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, suggesting it ignores evidence demonstrating the potential cost and damage to Australia’s […]
Independent factual content production and distribution company Barcroft Media has signed content agreements that will see the company’s short-form content distributed to news audiences in China, Africa and Canada. The company has announced the launch of Barcroft videos on Weibo, China’s largest social media platform which will see Barcroft Media short form content appear on […]
Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has been appointed Commercial Secretary (Minister of State) at Her Majesty’s Treasury, having previously been a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since July 2016 following the reallocation of ministerial briefs by new Prime Minister Theresa May. She served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at […]
The Productivity Commission, the Australian Government’s principal independent review and advisory body on microeconomic policy and regulation, has suggested that timely and cost-effective access to copyright content is the best way to reduce infringement, recommending that the Government should make it easier for users to access legitimate content by clarifying the law on geoblocking. The […]