The US Department of Justice has sued DirecTV and its corporate successor, AT&T Inc for acting as the ringleader of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DirecTV and three of its competitors – Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc. and AT&T – during the companies’ negotiations to carry SportsNet LA, which holds the exclusive […]
US SVoD service Hulu has secured new affiliate agreements with 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company that will add Fox’s premier entertainment, news, sports and non-fiction services, as well as Disney’s portfolio of networks from Disney/ABC Television Group and ESPN to the line-up of programming that will be available to stream live and […]
Pakistani telco PTCL has become the first telco in the country to sign a partnership agreement with Netflix. The pair will use their respective resources for mutual benefit, utilising and maximising the viewing experience and penetration of Netflix services in Pakistan. This agreement will serve as a way forward for both PTCL and Netflix to […]
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office is calling for views on the European Commission’s draft legislation to modernise the European copyright framework. On 14 September 2016, the European Commission published draft legislation aimed at modernising the European copyright framework. This legislation includes: a draft Regulation on the exercise of copyright and related rights in certain online […]
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) – the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America – has obtained UK High Court Orders requiring the five major UK ISPs to block access to thirteen websites dedicated to making copyright infringing material available for free on a large scale. The blocks are set to go live […]
The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) – a trade grouping that supports and represents those who build the nuts and bolts of the Internet – has submitted a comment in the form of a letter for the 2016 Special 301 Out of Cycle Review of Notorious Markets (a term used in the United States to describe […]
BT has added 63,000 TV customers in Q2, bringing its total to 1.7 million. The telco says that at BT Sport, it is benefiting from a new Saturday early evening slot for Premier League matches, with better viewing figures than last year. BT Sport programme rights charges were up 54 per cent mainly as a […]
The Board of the English Football Association (FA) has ratified what is described as a “hugely significant” overseas broadcast rights deal that will ensure The Emirates FA Cup’s status as the world’s original and greatest domestic cup competition. After an extremely competitive bidding process for the international rights to televise The Emirates FA Cup for […]
Amit Wohl, Video Security Product Manager in the Service Provider organisation at Cisco, has suggested the company is pioneering a new approach to piracy prevention, with its Streaming Piracy Prevention service utilising technology to locate illegal redistribution of content on the open Internet and closed pirate networks. In a Cisco blog post, Wohl notes that […]
Suggesting that it is revolutionising the process of transacting global media rights and distribution, BidSlate has launched, offering both buyers and sellers what it says is a secure, transparent marketplace to negotiate, buy and sell film rights. According to co-founders Roland Rojas and Jesse Scolaro, each year, thousands of high-quality independent films, documentaries, shorts, and […]