The Delaware bankruptcy court will rule today [September 22nd] on the transfer of spectrum from Ligado Networks and related businesses to AST SpaceMobile. The ruling is not unexpected because the deal was agreed in June. The hearing, before Judge Thomas Horan, will sign-off the pre-agreed resolution which sees AST pay $550 million (of which $535 […]
The UK’s Public Service Broadcasters have used the occasion of the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention to publish a joint letter calling for five specific actions they suggest will not only safeguard but, more importantly, enhance public service broadcasting. The letter reads: “The UK’s Public Service Broadcasters may be rivals when it comes to ratings, […]
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has suggested the forthcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to futureproof the BBC so it thrives not just for the next decade but well into the next century, and confirmed that the Government supported regulator Ofcom’s recommendation that Public Service Media content should be prominent on major video sharing […]
Antipiracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has welcomed the arrest of the operators of a large Latin American illicit IPTV network, IPTV66. The operators were taken into custody in the Dominican Republic following an operation triggered by an ACE criminal referral. The Department of Investigation of High Technology Crimes and Offenses (DICAT) […]
United Group has rejected “false and misleading claims” that the Group is seeking to curtail or otherwise compromise the editorial independence of N1 and Nova TV channels in Serbia, or sell them to Telekom Srbija or entities linked to the Serbian state. “These allegations are false,” the SE European bluntly stated. The declaration comes after […]
Officers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza (Italy’s Financial Police Force) of Cagliari have, in recent day, carried out seizures and searches in various Italian regions to combat the illegal streaming of television content and to protect copyright. According to what has been learned from the investigative sources, the Financiers of the […]
Disney, Universal and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have jointly filed suit against the Chinese creator of Hailuo AI a popular artificial intelligence video app, over what they call “wilful and brazen” copyright infringement. The suit against MiniMax, which owns the ‘Hollywood studio in your pocket’, is the first of its kind against a Chinese AI […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has opened a consultation on proposals to revise and improve the way it licenses non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems. NGSO systems use satellites to provide services such as broadband to individuals, businesses, and other organisations, particularly in remote areas. Ofcom introduced the current process for licensing NGSO systems in 2021 with […]
Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Eutelsat’s OneWeb and the SES/Jio plans for their satellite direct-to-consumer schemes might have an extra hurdle. Reports from India say that the government, which has been slow in issuing the necessary permits for these services to start, might now want to ‘cap’ or limit the number of subscribers they sign up. […]
Trade body the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has welcomed the criminal sentencing of Steven R Hale to 21 months in federal prison by the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee for criminal copyright infringement. Hale stole and sold pre-release DVDs and Blu-rays of major films. The sentence follows Hale’s guilty plea in […]