The head of Australia’s anti-copyright theft body has suggested that piracy is inevitable and needs to be addressed by changes in legislation. Speaking at a University of Melbourne seminar, Neil Gane, managing director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, admitted that Australians will continue to download illegally copyrighted material despite the availability of local, […]
Law suits seek end to Aero Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC and other US networks are in court this week to try to stop Aereo, the start-up that takes live TV programming and sends it to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee. If granted, a preliminary injunction sought by the plaintiffs the “would […]
EU Commission VP Neelie Kroes has revealed plans to create new recommendations on net neutrality for ISPs. Kroes said she still wants to provide consumers with more transparency and choice in their Internet services. She plans three recommendations: for ISPs to provide clear information on actual, ‘real-life’ broadband speeds, more detailed information on limits to […]
Telco equipment giants Huawei and ZTE could be facing a European Union investigation into whether the firms have benefited from subsidies by the Chinese government. Huawei and ZTE have been making inroads into the telecom equipment market, winning major contracts due in large part to the competitive pricing the two firms put forward. But now […]
David Cameron has defended Jeremy Hunt’s handling of Rupert Murdoch’s bid for BSkyB in the light of new evidence showing that Hunt was privately pushing for the takeover to be allowed before he was appointed to oversee the process. In an interview on ITV Cameron said Hunt had acted “impartially” from the moment he took […]
Freeview, the UK’s free-to-air digital TV platform, has suggested that mobile operators should bear the cost of protecting viewers’ TV services. Noting that 2.3 million households are at risk of losing their digital TV signal from 4G interference, Freeview has called on the Government urgently to revise its 4G proposals on the levels of support […]
A General Electric-owned company is preparing a courtroom battle with Apple claiming the iTunes platform violated its patent rights. SightSound Technologies, which is 50 per cent owned by GE, is seeking unspecified damages from Apple for alleged infringement of three patents it obtained to transmit video and audio over the Internet. The US company obtained […]
In its revised provisional findings published as part of the Movies on Pay TV investigation, the UK’s Competition Commission (CC) has ruled that Sky Movies no longer provides Sky with a material advantage over its rivals in the pay-TV retail market, following recognition by the watchdog that market dynamics had changed since its August 2011 […]
Aereo, Barry Diller’s startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it. A US District Court in New York dismissed one of three claims made by a group of broadcast […]
Jeremy Hunt, the UK culture secretary, is to be investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner on claims he failed to register donations from media companies while in opposition. John Lyon, the parliamentary standards commissioner, announced the inquiry on Monday in response to a complaint earlier in May from Labour MP Stephen McCabe. McCabe says a […]