Liverpool’s managing director, Ian Ayre has said that the football club is interested in negotiating their own overseas television rights deal and moving away from the existing Premier League agreement. The 20 Premier League teams currently command a deal worth £1.4 billion for their overseas broadcast rights to 2013. Liverpool are not happy at having […]
ProSiebenSat.1 is signing an extensive VoD rights agreement for maxdome with Disney Germany. The cooperative arrangement will add over 500 titles to the portfolio of Germany´s largest online video rental service. The agreement includes kids and family programming and feature films which will be made available through maxdome both on a transactional basis and within […]
Australian telco industry trade group Communications Alliance has applied to participate in the copyright case between iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) , with the anticipation that an industry-led solution to content piracy online can be reached by early 2012. AFACT, on behalf of a number of big movie studios, took […]
FOX Soccer has renewed exclusive media rights with The Football Association (FA), the governing body of football in England, for six more years through the 2017-18 soccer season. The multi-platform deal grants FOX exclusive rights to all FA content in all languages for the US and Caribbean territories, including the FA Cup tournament, England’s national […]
Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest man, is set to sign a deal with Walt Disney’s Indian subsidiary that will provide his Reliance Industries with the content for its next generation of mobile telecoms. The deal, expected to be sealed in the coming weeks, is between Reliance and UTV, one of Bollywood’s largest entertainment groups, which Disney […]
Univision Communications, the Hispanic America media company, and Hulu have announced a multi-year content agreement that will bring hundreds of hours of top-rated Spanish-language novelas, variety shows, comedies, and reality series from the Univision family of networks to Hulu and Hulu Plus. Launching later this year, the offering will include current season primetime programming from […]
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has announced that it will appeal against the decision of the EU Court of Justice, which said European countries mustn’t ban decoders for services available anywhere in Europe. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference on the protection of intellectual rights, Mediaset president, Fedele Confalonieri, said they are still examining the ruling, […]
The European Court of Justice decision on the Portsmouth pub’s right to tune into a Greek version of Premier League football meant a day of headline reactions (mainly over-reactions really), before, by nightfall, all had agreed the judgement needed very careful consideration. The ECJ judgment said: “The Court of Justice holds that national legislation […]
The English Premier League has lost its fight before the European Court of Justice to the extent it has ruled there must be a free market in the provision of programme service decoders. The judgement could be costly to those who sell exclusive territorial rights to sports and other events and will be costly and […]
Hollywood studio Miramax has been invigorated by the digital age, according to CEO Mike Lang. Delivering a Media Mastermind keynote at MIPCOM, Lang described the studio’s new approach as “a bit more Silicon Valley than Hollywood,” adding that Miramax was a media company that was almost forgotten and the digital market wasn’t really a focus […]