On the heels of World Intellectual Property Day, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released the 2016 Special 301 Report on the global state of intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. “Intellectual property is a critical source of economic growth and high-quality jobs for the United States, and it is more […]
According to Stan McCoy, President and Managing Director, MPA EMEA – the European arm of the Motion Picture Association of America – there isn’t one tool that will fix online content piracy, suggesting that it requires a flexible response, encompassing court action, consumer education and technological solutions as well as promoting consumers’ access to legal […]
now TV, Hong Kong’s largest pay-TV operator, has secured the non-exclusive broadcast rights of the Euro 2016 football tournament for Hong Kong viewers and will screen all 51 matches live in HD. Loke Kheng Tham, PCCW’s Executive Vice President of Pay TV, said, “This is set to be the most exciting summer for football fans […]
MP & Silva has awarded the live broadcast rights for the Premier League in Vietnam to K+ Satellite Digital Television from season 2016/17 to 2018/19. MP & Silva holds the live audio-visual broadcast rights as the official Premier League licensee in Vietnam. K+ has been broadcasting the Premier League since 2010, and subscribers can look […]
The Motion Picture Association of America MPAA) and labour union SAG-AFTRA have jointly filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission expressing concerns about Chairman Wheeler’s proposal designed to open up the set-top box market. Writing in the MPAA’s policy blog, Neil Fried, Senior Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs explains why, and what’s at stake […]
A+E Networks UK has signed a new carriage deal with BT TV, securing the long-term availability of the company’s channel portfolio, History, H2, Lifetime and Crime + Investigation, on BT’s platforms. As part of the new agreement, entertainment brand Lifetime, home to recent hit shows Britain’s Next Top Model and Dance Mums with Jennifer Ellison, […]
Middle East and North Africa pay-TV network OSN has secured a number of major successes in its fight against television piracy across the region, having carried out more than 316 raids with the support of government authorities. On the eve of the World Intellectual Property Day (World IP Day) on April 26, OSN is upping […]
The UK Government has confirmed that it plans to harmonise the maximum sentence for online copyright infringement with physical infringement – at 10 years. The proposal was contained in its response to a Consultation on Criminal Sanctions for Online Copyright Infringement. Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister for Intellectual Property, noted that the creative industries add £84.1 billion […]
Sky’s solid financial results pleased the market, but the likely costs of winning the impending German Bundesliga football TV rights, coming up for the final stages of auction at the end of May/early June, is scaring some analysts. For example, equity analysts at Exane/BNP-Paribas, are not just worried by the Bundesliga costs, but are fearful […]
The latest in a series of carriage renewal stand-offs which risked some of the US’s favourite channels going dark on the country’s leading satellite provider has been resolved, with DISH Network and Viacom agreeing to terms for a multi-year contract renewal that provides DISH customers with uninterrupted access to Viacom networks and sets the stage […]