One Briton and a Thai national have pleaded guilty to infringing the Premier League’s copyright in Thailand and have paid significant damages totalling THB 15 million (€450,000), in addition to almost THB 7 million in seized funds being forfeited to the State. They have also been sentenced to pay over THB 3million and sentenced to […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro will take European football governing body UEFA to Court for altering the submission bids for the Champions League for the seasons 2021-2014 in favour of Canal Plus and beIN Sports. “We are going to sue UEFA, in Switzerland, to request access to the tender documentation, the first and second rounds. We […]
Consumption of pirated online film, television and music content in the EU is falling, according to a new report by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The research shows that between 2017 and 2018, overall access to pirated content in the EU fell by 15.1 per cent on average. The fastest decline was seen […]
beIN Sports France has confirmed the return of UEFA Champions League football to its channels from the 2021-2024 seasons, having secured live coverage for almost all of the elite tournament’s games. beIN Sports has won ‘Lot B’ of the auction, which comprises the exclusive rights to 104 of the 138 Champions League games, including many […]
The BBC will broadcast every match from the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar this December. The competition kicks off on December 11th and will feature the champions of each continent. European champions Liverpool will compete in the 16th edition of the competition in the capital Doha. Jurgen Klopp’s team take part from the […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service from PCCW Media Group, has announced a content collaboration deal with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, bringing Discovery‘s real life entertainment to the expanding digital audiences in Southeast Asia via Viu. Janice Lee, Chief Executive Officer of Viu, said: “Having firmly established a highly engaged user base in the past […]
beIN Media Group and Dentsu, on behalf of FIFA, have announced a two-year media rights agreement that will see beIN Sports exclusively broadcast the FIFA Club World Cup in 24 countries across the Middle East & North Africa region. Set to take place in Qatar for the first time, both the 2019 and 2020 editions […]
SPI International has announced a licence agreement with DocuBay, the international membership-based VoD streaming service dedicated to premium documentary feature films. The licence deal includes seven of SPI International’s visually groundbreaking and insightful premium titles such as Turandot, Small Cams – Big Beasts, Time Hopper, Eye to Eye with Everest: Death on a Mountain, Invisible […]
The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) has welcomed two publications from the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Observatory on IP Infringements. The first study – Illegal IPTV in the European Union – carried out by the University of Bournemouth illustrates the complexities of illegal streaming business models and the technologies used and, for the first time, […]
French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 have secured and will share the TV rights to UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament that will take place in twelve European cities between June 12th and July 12th. Both groups will share the FTA broadcasts of the 23 best matches of the championship, including the opening match and the […]