Hardware makers are meeting politicians and copyright societies to discuss introducing a Europe-wide levy on media devices, offsetting revenue apparently lost from personal copying. Since 2001, 22 of Europe's 27 countries have made technology manufacturers pay the surcharge on products that allow music, books, movies and other copyrighted content to be copied. Now the European […]
French commercial TV operators Television Francaise 1 (TF1), Vivendi SA’s Canal+ and M6-Metropole Television have announced the creation of an association (ACP) to ‘defend the rights and professional interests’ of national, private, terrestrial channels. The formation of ACP comes at the time when a government-appointed commission is due to announce its proposals for removing advertising […]
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has launched a voluntary online ratings scheme, extending its established ratings labels to digital downloads and computer games. Web stores and services that sign up to the content ratings system, called BBFC Online, will apply the guidance labels to downloaded and streamed films, TV shows and computer games […]
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has launched a voluntary online ratings scheme, extending its established ratings labels to digital downloads and computer games. Web stores and services that sign up to the content ratings system, called BBFC Online, will apply the guidance labels to downloaded and streamed films, TV shows and computer games […]
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has launched a voluntary online ratings scheme, extending its established ratings labels to digital downloads and computer games. Web stores and services that sign up to the content ratings system, called BBFC Online, will apply the guidance labels to downloaded and streamed films, TV shows and computer games […]
The European Commission is to review News Corporation's stake in German pay-TV operator Premiere. The Commission stated: “We are examining [News Corp's acquisition of 22.7 per cent] of Premiere on the basis this may give News Corp de facto control.” In an echo of the regulatory difficulties BSkyB has faced in the UK with its […]
The European Commission has taken the next step in proceedings against Spain for not complying with television advertising restrictions. The infringement procedure, started in July 2007, is based on a monitoring report that found that the main TV channels in Spain, both publicly funded and commercial, failed regularly and by some margin to restrict advertising […]
The DVB Project has reported that the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), a body of the Organisation of American States (OAS), has decided to include the standards for digital terrestrial television DVB-T (fixed reception) and DVB-H (mobile TV) as official standards within the CITEL implementation guidelines. The CITEL Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Implementation Guide‚ is intended to […]
ITV has been fined £5.675 million (E7.12m) by Ofcom over the of premium-rate phone lines scandal – nearly three times the previous record sanction against a UK broadcaster. The chairman of Ofcom’s content sanctions committee, Philip Graf, said: “ITV programme makers totally disregarded their own published terms and conditions and Ofcom codes. Further, there was […]
Nativ, the video distribution specialist, has launched Mio Workflow, what the company claims is the media industry's first fully managed service to enable broadcasters, brand owners and advertisers to distribute content across any platform. Mio Workflow provides the tools necessary to ingest, re-purpose, protect and distribute raw video assets across the entire range of distribution […]