Canal+ and beIN Sports have signed a draft exclusive distribution agreement, according to French daily Le Monde. If the deal is concluded, then Canal+ and CanalSat will hold exclusive distribution rights to distribute beIN Sports – which currently holds the rights to Champions League football and France’s Ligue – 1 in the country. Canal+ has […]
In what is seen as the first test of Australia’s new copyright laws, media company Village Roadshow is to lead an action – backed by Hollywood studios – in the Australian Federal Court aimed at requiring Internet Service Providers to block piracy website Solarmovie. The move follows recent successful action in Singapore and in November […]
Indian video analytics start-up Vidooly has acquired OTT content start-up iCouchApp for an undisclosed sum. As a part of the deal, Vidooly will acquire all of iCouchApp’s assets and Intellectual Property. “Vidooly’s aim is to provide intelligent data on the entire ecosystem of online video. We are already doing that with the likes of YouTube, […]
CSI Sports, a global provider of televised fighting content, has signed multiple new carriage agreements for its new 24/7 HD Network Fight Sports in Sweden and Norway with Nordic pay-TV operator Telenor, at Telenor Sweden (including Canal Digital Cable, Telenor IP, Bredbandsbolaget and former Tele 2 Cable) and Canal Digital Kabel TV in Norway. These […]
Intertrust Technologies Corporation has added session-based video watermarking capabilities from Civolution’s NexGuard to its ExpressPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) service. NexGuard watermarking technology allows copyright holders to identify the source of unauthorised distribution even after a movie leaves the encrypted digital domain of a DRM system. The accountability provided by NexGuard session-based watermarking has already […]
ISPs in Singapore have been ordered to take down a web site which offers free streaming of a range of US film and TV shows in the first court action in Singapore since the government amended the Copyright Act in December 2014, enabling content owners to seek a High Court order to require ISPs to […]
AwesomenessTV, a successful YouTube channel in the US with over 3.5 million subscribers, has launched in the UK – becoming the first YouTube UK channel to provide content 365 days a year, seven days a week. The schedule will see advice and DIY videos published on Mondays, fashion and beauty content on Tuesdays, entertainment clips published […]
ESPN has introduced personalisation features for the UK edition of its global multi-sport website. Visitors to ESPN.co.uk will now be able to personalise their experience to ensure they always have direct access to the content that matters most to them. The personalisation engine will enable fans of top English and European football teams to follow […]
Cinegy, which develops and produces software technology for digital video processing, asset management, video compression, automation and playout has joined ImmersiaTV, an EU consortium of university technology incubators, research institutes, and commercial entities collaborating to research and develop the future of home entertainment, including virtual and augmented reality. Cinegy Managing Director Daniella Weigner said, “Although […]
Open-source media player Kodi is to take action against rogue sellers who modify the software, installing broken piracy add-ons, advertising that Kodi allows the user to watch free movies and TV, and then vanishing when the user buys the box and finds out that the add-on they were sold on was “a crummy, constantly breaking […]