Following earlier speeches which suggested that both the creative and technology communities, must work together to find a shared solution to movie piracy, Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has reiterated his call for co-operation. Writing on website politico.com following a discussion at the Commonwealth Club in […]
Barry Diller, the former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures Corp and of Fox, and the current Chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, a backer of start-up Internet streaming service Aereo, has won the first stage of a legal battle against Alki David-backed BarryDriller.com. A California District court has granted a preliminary injunction against David’s service from continuing […]
Iran-backed TV news channel Press TV has been banned again. This time it is a German superior court in Bavaria which has successfully argued that Press TV cannot be transmitted for broadcast to Germany. The ruling overturns a decision by a lower court in Munich that had ruled in favour of the controversial English-language news […]
The court verdict that awarded at least $250 million to TiVo from telco giant Verizon means that the ‘time warp’ patent-holder has now earned more than $1 billion for its IP, part of its DVR time-shifting technology. And the cash will continue to come in. Most of the awards are also tied into royalty payments […]
Charlie Ergen is currently involved in – at least – two bouts of serious litigation. There’s the Cablevision/VOOM case, which restarts on September 24th in New York, and 3,000 miles away in a Los Angeles courtroom Dish Network is defending its ‘Autohop’ ad-skipping service against an application for an injunction from Fox Television. Fox Television […]
The US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, which is chaired by Congressmen Adam Schiff and Bob Goodlatte, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Orrin Hatch, has unveiled the 2012 International Piracy Watch List. In an effort to fight copyright piracy and call attention to countries where it has reached alarming levels, the Caucus highlighted the high levels […]
Judge Richard Lowe, officiating over the Cablevision vs EchoStar legal action in New York, used a break in the case to tell the litigants to “engage in discussions” before the trial gets underway properly next week. The hearing was delayed because not enough jury members were empanelled. Cablevision is suing EchoStar for $2.4 billion, and […]
The bitter dispute between EchoStar’s Charlie Ergen and Cablevision’s Dolan family over the long-abandoned Voom HDTV portfolio of channels is about to come to court. Cablevision is suing EchoStar for $2.5 billion in damages, arguing that in taking Voom down from its Dish Network the broadcaster breached a binding contract between the two parties. The […]
A report prepared by ten leading European thinkers looking at the challenge of managing intellectual property in the 21st century has suggested that Europe needs to make bolder efforts to overhaul its system for patent, copyright and trademark enforcement if it wants to build its digital economy. “Europe’s digital economy desperately needs better conditions in […]
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has warned that Europe’s creative sector faces losing out to the US if steps are not taken to reform copyright in the EU, and suggested that a common European solution was needed to avoid fragmentation and to seize benefits for a European Digital […]