French producer and adult content distributor Marc Dorcel is to launch the first adult channel in Africa. Dorcel TV Africa will be exclusively carried on pay-TV offering Les Bouquets Canal+, which covers more than 25 countries across the continent. Available from the Evasion+ package and with a parental password, the channel will deliver exclusive African […]
Last week, a French Tribunal found – apparently decisively – that Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat is distributing pirated signals from beoutQ. The legal action had been brought by Qatar’s BeIN Media Group which has suffered badly at the hands of the pirates. beIN’s case was brought before the President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris […]
According to findings from digital piracy data specialist MUSO looking into the increasingly fragmented streaming services landscape, 80.4 per cent of European adults think that they’re currently paying too much for content streaming. In a year that will see new streaming services launch from the likes of Apple, Disney and BritBox, the joint-venture between ITV […]
Amazon Prime Video will have exclusive rights to show the top Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tournaments in a four-year deal starting next year. Offering a minimum of 49 tournaments in the first year, Prime members in the UK and Ireland will have access to the live events at no additional cost to their membership. Prime […]
VOO and Telenet subscribers in Belguim can continue to tune in to Premier League football for another 3 seasons on the Be TV and VOOsport channels. In a joint statement, the two operators said they are “proud to announce the continuation of the exclusive broadcast of the Premier League for the next three seasons”.
A new estimate from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) puts the annual losses due to counterfeiting and piracy across 11 key economic sectors in the EU at up to £49 billion (€60bn) each year. The updated analysis puts the overall losses at 7.4 per cent of all sales in the following sectors: cosmetics […]
Jean-Marc Racine, Chief Product Officer and General Manager of EMEAR at Synamedia, has warned that the current industry preoccupation with ensuring that content is available to consumers on the device of their choice, at the time of their choice, attracts significant piracy risks. Participating in the International Content Summit at ANGA COM in Cologne, Racine […]
The Premier League and Infront have agreed a new partnership for free-to-air rights across sub-Saharan Africa for three years commencing with the 2019/20 season. The rights to the Premier League cover over 40 sub-Saharan countries, including major territories such as South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. “We are very pleased to be working with Infront […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, licensees of three Scottish premises – Natalie Coggans, the Designated Premises Manager (DPM) of Woodhead Bar, Andrew Quay, DPM of Darroch Bar and Lorraine Robertson, DPM of The Grange – have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€111,283) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports […]
FIFA and beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment group, have today announced a media rights agreement that will see beIN Sports, beIN’s flagship sports network, exclusively broadcast next month’s FIFA Women’s World Cup France in more than 30 countries across Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). The deal means that […]