Mediapro, the Spanish TV company, has confirmed it will appeal against the Milan Court’s decision to cancel its tender to sell the Italy’s Serie A football TV rights. Contrary to the alleged breach of competition rules, Mediapro believes that its commercial proposal meets the Serie A criteria. The company argues that its offer to operators […]
The US Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order will take effect on June 11th, returning the regulation of Internet service providers to what the FCC describes as “the bipartisan, light-touch approach that fostered rapid Internet growth, openness, and freedom for nearly 20 years”. “I strongly support a free and open Internet,” declared FCC Chairman […]
In the week that reports emerged that UK public broadcasters the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are once again in talks to create a joint streaming service to take on the increasing dominance that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video hold in the UK, a senior member of UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has declared the 2009 […]
A Milan judge has upheld the suspension of the awarding of TV rights for Italian Serie A football to Spanish company MediaPro following an appeal by pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia, the current holder of the rights. In his ruling, Judge Claudio Marangoni said
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, James Barnes Bar and Jagtar Singh Nijar of O’Kane’s in Glasgow, Linelly Limited and Linda Davidson of Fox’s bar in Edinburgh and Claire Gorman of Cheers Bar in Cambuslang have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€11,420) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming […]
UK consumer champion Which? and pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness have collaborated to launch the new Film Finder tool, which connects audiences to the broadest range of films and TV shows available in the UK, whilst also driving engagement with legal services. The Film Finder, integrated within the Which? website, is […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, speaking at last week’s Series Mania festival and conference in Lille, France, said that he will spend €1 billion this year in boosting European production and to start meeting the planned European 30 per cent quota on local content output. The EU ruling come in three years from now. Hastings told […]
Over 90 people representing law enforcement, rights owners, platform operators, media technology providers, broadcasters and other trade associations from Europe, the US, the Far East, Middle East and Latin America participated in the second AAPA (Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance) workshop on illegal streaming, held in London, recently. The workshop allowed for an exchange of views about […]
Movie stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard star in an exclusive trailer for summer blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the latest film to support pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign. In the exclusive piece to camera, the pair emphasise how dinosaurs are the biggest creatures to […]
There’s considerable interest from the world’s airlines in providing ‘direct-to-seat’ broadband connectivity for email and TV entertainment. The pattern being employed is that the likes of Gogo, Panasonic Aviation and Global Eagle tie up airlines and provide services via satellite capacity that they have booked via Intelsat, SES, ViaSat, Eutelsat and others. Except for India. […]