In a move that may benefit the potential takeover of English Premier League football club Newcastle United by Saudi interests, the kingdom’s IP body, the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP), has announced its intention to block 231 websites that it says violate regulations and rights. The announcement follows a damning report from the World […]
The European Commission has published a major report in which it singles out Saudi Arabia for “causing considerable harm to EU businesses” following the two-year theft of European sport programmes by Saudi-based beoutQ and Arabsat. The report sets out priority countries – only 13 worldwide – on which “the EU will focus its action” regarding […]
The European Commission has published the latest report on protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in third countries. While developments have taken place since the publication of the previous report, concerns persist and a number of areas for improvement and action remain to be addressed. Intellectual property rights infringements worldwide cost European firms billions […]
A ‘reveal all’ website has been published by pay-TV operator beIN Media Group which it claims publicly exposes what it describes as the “industrial scale theft” of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ – the Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel – and Arabsat – the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider – for the past 18 […]
Global sports and entertainment media group, beIN Corporation (beIN), has launched an international investment arbitration against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages totalling more than $1 billion (€0.87bn), claiming it has unlawfully been driven out of the Saudi market and subjected to what has been described as the most widespread piracy of sports broadcasting […]
Investment bank Exane/BNPP, in a major report, tells investors that Europe’s ‘Media’ sector was one of the “worst performing sectors” last year, underperforming the market by 11 per cent, and following on a 7 per cent underperformance in 2016. Some of the downward re-ratings were “brutal” says equity analysts at the bank, and that ‘Brexit’ […]
Research commissioned by techUK – which represents 900 tech companies – reveals that British employers in digitally intensive industries are particularly reliant on overseas talent, with 45 per cent of recent vacancies filled by foreign-born workers. In software and computer services, nearly
A number of TV and content industry players have shared their views on the UK electorate’s decision to leave the European Union. and potential implications for the media industry Law firm Olswang notes that probably the defining characteristic of the EU is that it facilitates the free movement of people, goods and services, and suggests […]
Rentrak, a specialist in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, has announced a group-wide local TV ratings expansion with the CBS Television Stations. All 27 CBS-owned television stations in the US will now have access to Rentrak traditional household and age/sex ratings, as well as the full suite of Advanced Demographics for automotive purchase behaviours […]
CBS and DISH Network have reached a multi-year agreement for carriage of CBS owned stations across the US, as well as CBS Sports Network, Smithsonian Channel, TVGN and Showtime Networks, which includes Showtime TV Everywhere and VoD rights. “We are very pleased with this deal, which meets all of our economic and strategic objectives,” said […]