EchoStar’s lawyers received a dressing down from Judge Richard Lowe III in a New York courtroom on October 12th, who told them bluntly: “Everybody involved in this litigation [for Dish] has no credibility when it comes to document exchange, when it comes to turning everything over [to the plaintiffs] you’ve been directed to turn over,” […]
India is to include TV channels into its existing ‘Indecent Representation of Women Act’ and to widen scope of the 1986 legislation to cover both satellite TV and even Internet activity. There have been examples of India’s censor getting involved in some TV programming, especially when movies are shown, and this has led to a […]
Canal Plus’s appeal to France’s constitutional court claiming the regulator’s imposition of ‘remedies’ relating its 2007 takeover of TPS, has failed. The CSA has imposed the remedies because C+ failed to meet the conditions set at the time of the deal. The court ruled the competition authority did not have the power to impose disproportionate […]
UK media law firm Wiggin is opening its first international office in Brussels. The office will be headed up by Ted Shapiro, the Motion Picture Association’s current head of legal for Europe in Brussels. According to Simon Baggs, Wiggin’s head of content protection, the world of copyright is borderless and rapidly changing. “Our clients need […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has confirmed it will oppose the proposed acquisition by Seven Group Holdings (Seven) of the balance of shares that it does not already own in Consolidated Media Holdings (CMH). Seven owns 25.3 per cent of the shares in CMH and around 33 per cent of the shares in Seven […]
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has suggested that the European film industry should consider a single market that takes advantage of economies of scale, and reconsider release windows. Offering her thoughts on ‘Helping European films thrive’ as part of a Round Table on ‘Financing and distribution of European […]
SeaChange, the multi-screen video software company, has confirmed that a US District Court has ruled in its favour, rejecting allegations by Arris that SeaChange had violated a 2006 injunction. The dispute began in 2001, when n-Cube Corporation (whose interest was later acquired by Arris Group) filed suit alleging that SeaChange’s ITV video system infringed an […]
Chinese telecom groups Huawei and ZTE do pose a security threat a US Congress report has warned after an investigation into the two companies. It said the firms had failed to allay fears about their association with the Chinese government and military. The companies are among the world’s biggest makers of telecom networking equipment.”China has […]
In a move that will appease operators O2 and Vodafone, UK comms regulator Ofcom has revealed that significant progress that has been made in moving forward the delivery of competitive 4G mobile services across the UK. This means that the 4G auction process is on track to begin at the end of the year to […]
There are an estimated 200,000 pirate set-top boxes in use in Chile, Venexuela, Peru and Colombia today. Tomorrow many of them will be useless if the scheme mooted by the region’s pay-TV operators have their way. Starting immediately, broadcasters will address the widespread software hacking which permits users to access up to 200 channels. Nagra […]