US public interest bodies Public Knowledge, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with the help of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic at Stanford Law School, have filed an amicus [friend of court] brief in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that OTT platform FilmOn qualifies for the cable statutory licence. This allows […]
BBC Worldwide has agreed a deal with South Korean OTT service Pooq that will allow viewers to live stream, catch up and watch BBC World News and CBeebies, and also watch top-rated BBC dramas and natural history programmes on demand. “I am very excited to be working with Pooq. We are always looking for new […]
SPI International has signed an extensive deal with BBC Worldwide acquiring TV and VoD rights to such British hits as Doctor Who, Wolf Hall and War and Peace in addition to a number of other series and films which the global pay TV operator will air on its FilmBox brand channels across Central and Eastern […]
BBC Worldwide Asia has announced a new licensing deal with Chinese ISP Tencent at MIPTV. The deal will see more than 1,000 hours of documentaries from the BBC added to the Tencent online video platforms, including v.qq.com and the Tencent Video app. Through this most recent partnership, Tencent’s users can now enjoy programmes such as: […]
Netflix has bought the rights to ITV’s new drama Marcella, written by the creator of The Bridge, Hans Rosenfeldt and starring Anna Friel. The VoD service has bought the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the eight-part thriller, which begins on ITV on April 4th. Rosenfeldt said: “I think it’s amazing to be on Netflix, it […]
Eurosport has reinforced its commitment to Olympic sports by extending its multiplatform rights for elite-level championships organised by European Athletics. The European-wide agreement, acquired from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), covers a series of top athletics events over the next four years. Kicking off with the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam from July 6th, […]
HJ Holdings (Hulu in Japan) and Starz Digital, the global digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz, have announced an expansion of their STARZ Original series content licensing agreement. Hulu in Japan has acquired the SVoD rights to premiere the popular series, Ash vs Evil Dead, based on the classic horror film, The Evil Dead […]
UK fans of Formula One will not be able to see live coverage of the sport free-to-air after 2018 following a new broadcast partnership between Sky and Formula One Management, save for the home British Grand Prix and at least two others. Sky also confirmed that coverage would be available in Ultra HD from next […]
UK quad-play operator Virgin Media is to ramp up the amount of exclusive video-on-demand programming available to its Virgin Media TV XL customers to watch through its TV on demand service. David Bouchier, Chief Digital Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media, revealed the operator’s intentions at a preview screening of Kingdom, a raw, emotional family drama […]
A website associated to popular UK daily tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror has published details of how UK subscribers to Netflix can get ‘more bang for their buck’ by following a series of instructions aimed at fooling Netflix into thinking that the subscriber is in a different country, which makes it automatically make available new […]