For more than sixteen years, Brazil's Legendas.tv has been the go-to repository for Portuguese subtitles. Its reign has now come to an end after the popular site voluntarily closed its doors. Legendas' operators stress that legal streaming services have made foreign content more accessible. At the same time, the site's financial position has been deteriorating.
Top stars feature in an 18-strong Tamil-language film slate that will bow on Netflix after theatrical release. Several of the titles will also be made available on the service in the Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages.
The European Commission has issued a call for evidence to support an incoming "toolbox" to combat piracy of live events. For the next month, stakeholders are invited to share experiences and potential solutions to tackle pirate IPTV services. The only caveat is that proposals must be actionable under existing law, which rightsholders say isn't up to the job.
He said that almost 95% of grievances are settled at the level of producers, while others get resolved at the second stage of the association of publishers of the content. Only 1% of complaints reach the inter-departmental committee, said the minister
The new Act will be an overarching framework which is likely to introduce provisions related to data storage, online gaming, cyberbullying, doxing, and other cyber-crime.
“For the next 2-3 years at least, many of these devices will be for premium users and then we will gradually see other players pouring into the affordable segment. Right now, even if we have devices in the affordable segment, it will not make sense because the use cases and applications will still have a cost,” Faisal Kawoosa, chief analyst at Techarc told ETTelecom.
Hollywood films have managed to earn ₹1,200 crore to ₹1,300 crore in box office collections in India in 2022, despite fewer films releasing post covid-19 disruptions, making for about 12-13% of overall box office earnings in the country last year.
"We have arrested Shisharam Badiya from his native place Rajasthan for copyright violation based on a complaint by Star India," said Anoop Shetty, deputy commissioner of police, north east division, Bengaluru City adding that the interrogation with the accused is on.
India is set to have the largest base of social media content creators globally with the figure crossing 100 million this year, according to influencer marketing firm Zefmo. This follows venture capital firm Kalaari Capital stating in October that the country had at least 80 million creators in 2022.
Mainstream film stars like Shahid Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan, and Anushka Sharma who will soon be seen in web originals, will be looking at a 15-20% premium over the remuneration they ordinarily receive for feature film projects.