NAB said companies seeking to retransmit the signals of U.S. TV stations “should...
NAB said companies seeking to retransmit the signals of U.S. TV stations “should be required to do no less” than the European Court of Justice affirmed last week (CD March 8 p15). Thursday’s ruling said that since the TVCatchup service…
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to watch terrestrial U.K. TV programming can be seen by anyone in that country with a TV license, the company’s online retransmissions can be barred by broadcasters. “The Court’s ruling noted the ‘high level of protection of authors’ provided under European law ‘allowing them to obtain an appropriate reward for the use of their works,'” an NAB spokesman said in a Friday news release. “The ‘Directive’ under which the case was decided is designed to harmonize the domestic laws of countries belonging to the European Union.” NAB backs the World Intellectual Property Organization’s effort to harmonize such laws internationally, he said (http://bit.ly/WaJFaM).