A joint letter has been sent to the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Competition, Teresa Ribera calling on the European Commission within the framework of the Digital Markets Act to: Designate major connected TV Operating Systems and Virtual Assistant providers as gatekeepers If allegedly none of them meet the quantitative thresholds, to open a market investigation […]
AsiaSat, claiming contract breaches, has started legal actions against Indian broadcasting giants Zee Entertainment and JioStar. AsiaSat is being restricted from transmissions into India effective March 31st. One of AsiaSat’s complaints is India’s restrictive access to satellite spectrum and India’s approach to foreign companies operating – or wishing to operate – in India’s expanding space […]
US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have sent a letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo regarding Seedance 2.0’s “egregious” infringement of copyrighted materials belonging to American innovators. Senators Blackburn and Welch are calling on the Chinese company to immediately shut down this platform and comply with US copyright law. They contend that […]
To meet the growing demand for satellite connectivity services in the UK, comms regulator Ofcom has decided to make more spectrum available for satellite gateway earth stations. Satellite communication systems rely on gateway earth stations which enable large volumes of data to be transmitted between Earth and space, and then onwards to the internet or […]
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) – the trade union representing professional writers across TV, film, theatre, radio, books, poetry, and video games – has welcomed the UK government’s report on copyright and AI released on March 18th. WGGB General Secretary Ellie Peers said: “Copyright and AI is an issue of huge importance to […]
The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI. Its original position – allowing AI companies to use copyrighted works to train their models with an opt-out option – received considerable backlash from the UK creative industry. “We have listened,” Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said, revealing the government no longer favours that […]
Speaking at the Society of Editors Future of News Conference, today [March 17th], Lisa Nandy, the UK Culture Secretary, will back the essential role of local media in communities all over the UK. The Local Media Strategy is part of the steps the government is taking to improve social cohesion and protect what matters. The […]
The availability of full-fibre broadband almost everywhere will lay the foundations for productivity gains across the UK, according to Ofcom, which has finalised plans for how it will enable further competition and investment in the sector. Ofcom’s Telecoms Access Review, which builds on the regulator’s 2021 overhaul of how it regulates Openreach, sets out the […]
Ireland’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal action brought by CNN against a decision made last year that favoured Rivada Networks and its CEO Declan Ganley. In a judgment on behalf of the three-judge Court of Appeal on March 13th, Judge Denis McDonald dismissed two appeals made by the CNN side. The first related […]
Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), has confirmed that the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas has entered an $18.75 million (€16.3m) default judgment against William Freemon, a longtime digital piracy operator leading multiple illegal IPTV services, including Streaming TV Now, Instant IPTV and TV Nitro. Freemon also operated […]