The English High Court continues to be dominated by sports and music copyright cases, with all three of the most frequent claimants in 2017 being sport and music bodies, according to RPC, the City-headquartered professional services firm. RPC says that the top three most frequent claimants in the High Court last year were: PPL (Phonographic […]
US professional football body Major League Soccer (MLS) has agreed a comprehensive three-year deal with Twitter to provide MLS fans with a broad slate of weekly programming including live matches, highlights and features. MLS will provide Twitter with a package of live, on-demand content each week allowing MLS fans nationwide to follow their favourite teams […]
More than nine hundred delegates gathered at the 20th Cartoon Movie animation forum in Bordeaux last week. Initiated in 1999 with the help of Creative Europe -the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Cartoon Movie has obtained huge positive results: more than 301 animated features presented since the start have found their financing, which represents […]
Egypt’s IT agency has announced it is setting up a specialised digital forensic lab for Intellectual Property as part of its enforcement schemes of combating software piracy. The new lab, the first of its kind in the MENA region, is mainly designed to resolve business software and internet-based piracy cases. It authentically recovers data from […]
Finnish telco DNA and MTV are tightening their co-operation by providing the subscribers of DNA’s C More channel package with access to all content in the C More streaming service. DNA’s customers can use the C More service easily with their current DNA TV user IDs and without any separate log-in. The entire content of […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its NexGuard watermarking technology has been certified by the ChinaDRM Lab, the standards body that oversees digital rights management in China. The ChinaDRM Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the technical branch of the State Administration […]
For the first time, Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar will broadcast F1 and Moto GP races exclusively, following Vodafone’s decision to drop the rights. Movistar has launched two channels dedicated to each of the sports which will cover all races and information about the competitions. The Movistar MotoGP channel will offer the 19 Grand Prix races […]
The European Commission has published its latest report on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in countries outside the EU. The report helps the Commission to
In a move that strengthens the digital movie ecosystem, on-demand video service FandangoNOW, available on more than 200 million connected devices, has become the digital retailer to join the initiative. Movie lovers can now easily centralise and access their favourite digital movies purchased and redeemed through FandangoNOW alongside their titles from other participating digital retailers. […]
International eSports company Gfinity is to stream digital broadcasts of the Gfinity Elite Series eSports tournaments exclusively on Facebook throughout 2018. The arrangement covers the UK and extends to new territories which are part of Gfinity’s global expansion plans with the exception of Australia and starts with immediate effect with the Gfinity Elite Series Season […]