YouTube has signed a multi-year agreement with the Universal Music Group, amid plans to expand its subscription businesses. Universal Music said the deal would provide its artists more flexibility and pay, and strengthen YouTube’s commitment to managing music rights. YouTube also reached a deal with Warner Music Group in May in advance of its new […]
iflix, the online TV service for emerging markets, has entered into multi-year content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to add a huge selection of the studio’s most popular titles to iflix’s extensive library. Through this deal, iflix subscribers across sub-Saharan Africa will have unlimited access to both stream and download a library of NBCU titles, […]
Facebook has released its Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017. For the first time, it is expanding the report beyond government requests to provide data regarding reports from rights holders related to intellectual property (IP) — covering copyright, trademark, and counterfeit. The report also includes the same […]
In line with its objective to simplify the Group’s structure and allocate its capital and resources to its operating businesses, media and entertainment technology specialist Technicolor has confirmed that it is in negotiations for a strategic transaction relating to its patent licensing business. While there is no assurance that a transaction will take place, Technicolor […]
A+E Networks UK and TalkTalk have renewed their partnership in a long-term carriage deal, securing the continued distribution of A+E’s UK pay channel brands on TalkTalk’s TV platform. As part of the deal, HISTORY and Crime + Investigation are available in the Entertainment Boost, alongside H2 and Lifetime. TalkTalk TV subscribers can choose from a […]
NBCUniversal has acquired rights from the National Football League to stream Sunday Night Football through NBC’s TV Everywhere offering on all mobile devices beginning with the 2018 season. The agreement also allows for NBCU to extend those authenticated streaming rights to its cable, satellite, and telco partners, as well as virtual MVPDs. Although NBC Sports […]
In a move set to benefit consumers and customers of both pay-TV platforms, Sky has concluded an agreement with BT which means Sky customers will have their choice of sports all through a single Sky TV subscription, while also broadening the reach of Sky’s entertainment channel brands to all major pay-TV services in the UK […]
BritBox, the SVoD streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, will launch in Canada in early 2018. The service initially launched in the US in March 2017. The streaming service will celebrate the very best of British TV, and offer the most comprehensive collection […]
The European Parliament has confirmed by 365 to 256 that the ability of users to access all their media across Europe will be restricted to news and current affairs – effectively upholding geoblocking on most content and flying in the face of the Commission’s Digital Single Market proposals. The EC’s SatCab proposals had been designed […]
Intensive cooperation and coordination between enforcement authorities at EU level has led to the seizure of millions of fake and possibly harmful products and has helped to take down several transnational criminal networks. At the forefront of this cooperation is the Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition (IPC3), set up within the current structure of Europol, […]