A leading member of Australia’s Federal Attorney-General’s department is backing the creation of a self-regulated industry code between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and rights holders to combat piracy issues. A growing number of rights holders, service providers, user groups and copyright experts consider an industry code would be preferable to further litigation or copyright legislation. […]
UltraViolet, the technology that bridges a single piece of content to a variety of devices, is unlikely to launch in the UK until the end of 2012, according to Michael Comish, CEO of Internet video streaming service blinkbox. The first US movie title to be released physically with Ultra Violet digital ownership rights – Horrible […]
Internet video streaming service Netflix is ramping up its TV content inventory by securing a licensing agreement with CBS and Warner Bros. TV allowing US members of Netflix instantly to watch previous seasons of scripted series that air on The CW from its current schedule through the 2014-15 season. As part of this four-year […]
Times Of India is buying mobile and Internet highlights of the English football Premier League, through a deal with rights holder Perform Group. The two rights packages were not exploited in the 2011/11 season but Perform holds them for the 2011/12 season. It is sub-licensing the mobile clips exclusively and the Internet package non-exclusively to […]
Liverpool’s managing director, Ian Ayre has said that the football club is interested in negotiating their own overseas television rights deal and moving away from the existing Premier League agreement. The 20 Premier League teams currently command a deal worth £1.4 billion for their overseas broadcast rights to 2013. Liverpool are not happy at having […]
ProSiebenSat.1 is signing an extensive VoD rights agreement for maxdome with Disney Germany. The cooperative arrangement will add over 500 titles to the portfolio of Germany´s largest online video rental service. The agreement includes kids and family programming and feature films which will be made available through maxdome both on a transactional basis and within […]
Australian telco industry trade group Communications Alliance has applied to participate in the copyright case between iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) , with the anticipation that an industry-led solution to content piracy online can be reached by early 2012. AFACT, on behalf of a number of big movie studios, took […]
FOX Soccer has renewed exclusive media rights with The Football Association (FA), the governing body of football in England, for six more years through the 2017-18 soccer season. The multi-platform deal grants FOX exclusive rights to all FA content in all languages for the US and Caribbean territories, including the FA Cup tournament, England’s national […]
Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest man, is set to sign a deal with Walt Disney’s Indian subsidiary that will provide his Reliance Industries with the content for its next generation of mobile telecoms. The deal, expected to be sealed in the coming weeks, is between Reliance and UTV, one of Bollywood’s largest entertainment groups, which Disney […]
Univision Communications, the Hispanic America media company, and Hulu have announced a multi-year content agreement that will bring hundreds of hours of top-rated Spanish-language novelas, variety shows, comedies, and reality series from the Univision family of networks to Hulu and Hulu Plus. Launching later this year, the offering will include current season primetime programming from […]