The European Commission has notified Altice of its decision to impose upon it a €124.5 million fine for gun jumping in connection with Altice’s acquisition of PT Portugal in June 2015. The Commission found that Altice infringed the prior notification obligation of a concentration under Article 4(1) of the EU Merger Regulation, and the stand-still […]
The EC may threaten social media companies with regulation unless they move to tackle fake news and the use of personal data before the European elections in 2019. The EU security commissioner, Julian King, said “short-term, concrete” plans needed to be in place before the elections, when voters in 27 EU member states will elect […]
SVoD operators Amazon and Netflix have joined with Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal City Studios, Universal Cable, Universal Television and Warner Bros to file a lawsuit against OTT service Set Broadcast, claiming it markets and sell subscriptions to Setvnow, a software application that is used as a tool for the mass infringement of […]
Françoise Nyssen, France’s Minister for Culture, has called for the establishment of a blacklist of infringing websites in the fight against audiovisual piracy. Speaking at a reception in honour of French films selected for the Cannes Film Festival, Nyssen noted France’s cinematic cultural heritage, but admitted that this predated the digital revolution, and it was […]
AIM, a not-for-profit trade body that represents the UK’s independent music industry, is partnering with content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO to give the independent sector access to a bespoke digital piracy protection service. AIM rightsholder members (independent labels and self-releasing artists) will receive access to a new, free-to-member digital piracy protection service, developed […]
Sir David Clementi, Chairman of the BBC, has suggested that serving the 18-to-34 demographic, the so-called ‘smartphone generation’, is the Corporation’s biggest challenge as it responds to changing times and technologies in the broadcast world, needing to be
Facebook has changed its terms of service to put 1.5 billion members outside the protection of GDPR. The change involves users who will be regulated via its European headquarters in Ireland. The move, says Reuters, will see Facebook users outside the EU governed by Facebook Inc in the US rather than Facebook Ireland. It is […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has opened seven new investigations into the due impartiality of news and current affairs programmes on the RT news channel. The investigations form part of an Ofcom update into the licences held by TV Novosti, the company that broadcasts RT. Until recently, TV Novosti’s overall compliance record has not been materially […]
The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on TVs from China would increase the price Americans pay for TVs, costing US consumers an estimated $711 million (€574m) over the next year, according to a study commissioned by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and National Retail Federation (NRF). “These proposed tariffs are bad for the economy, businesses and […]
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced that the organisation has seen an uptick in membership and the number of members has increased to 96. Since the organisation’s merger with the Media Networking Alliance (MNA) was announced late last year, more than 20 companies have joined AIMS. The following companies have joined AIMS […]