Disney also expects to unlock additional advertising opportunities by selling ads for the combined service, building on its existing cross-platform sales.
The Bombay High Court (HC) judgement shows how state governments can widen the scope of entertainment duty by treating more transaction-linked charges as part of the online ticket booking price.
Confirming BestMediaInfo.com’s exclusive report, CEO Gaurav Dwivedi says a faceless, transparent content upload system will roll out next month
Despite booming demand for local-language content, small regional platforms say low ad rates, opaque algorithms, and advertiser bias keep them from fair value, forcing them to fight for visibility and revenue
The government is considering whether the ex-ante provisions in the Digital Competition Bill should be implemented now, modified, or deferred until after detailed market studies.
A California man has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages for operating the pirate IPTV service 'Outer Limits'. After the defendant failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon, a district court judge in California awarded the maximum statutory damages for willful copyright infringement.
Sitaare Zameen Par's release on YouTube as pay-per-view is a gamble for Aamir Khan, with expected earnings of ₹25-30 crore compared to a potential ₹125 crore from an OTT deal
The details of a new procedure for imposing and collecting administrative fines for intellectual property offenses has been published in Greece. At the bottom end of the scale, fines for accessing pirated content such as pirate IPTV streams, start at €750 per violation, increasing to €5,000 if use is commercial. For repeat offenses, fines double to €1,500 and €5,000 respectively.
Reports that the Nigerian Copyright Commission had recently shut down a pirate site didn't sound especially interesting. Operating under MovieBox branding, currently seen on endless domains, the local site reportedly received over 130 million visits in the previous three months and was actually still in business.
The demand to exempt AI training from the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act raises serious concerns. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) frames this as a question of national competitiveness, claiming India must ease restrictions on publicly available personal data to keep pace with the US and China. But this framing avoids deeper questions.