Last week, Facebook and Brazilian TV channel Esporte Interativo secured the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Brazil for the next three years, beginning with the 2018/19 season. The...
Streaming sports online can sometimes come with a heavy price. That’s what a British man named Waqas Rasheed discovered last week when he was found guilty of infringing the copyright of Europe’s Sky satellite TV network. Like most television networks that carry live sports coverage, Sky pays billions of dollars to professional leagues and clubs […]
Jody MacDonald is a sports media and technology lawyer at the UK’s leading sports law firm Couchmans LLP. In a decision which will be of interest to fans and sports media professionals in the UK and overseas, the English High Court has found that a service publishing 8 second clips of sports broadcasts infringed […]
For millions of sports fans around the world viewing, posting and sharing short form video content is now central to the way they want to consume and interact with the sports they love. Worryingly for the entities in charge of those sports, demand for this content is increasingly being met by communities of fans or […]
