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Opinion of the Advocate General threatens the revenues of sports rights holders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- February 4 2011
The Advocate General delivered an Opinion yesterday in a test case on the ability of sports rights holders under EU law to limit the rights granted to satellite broadcasters to a given national territory
Advocate General Kokott delivers Opinion in reference for preliminary ruling regarding broadcasting of football matches
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- United Kingdom
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- February 1 2011
On 3 February 2011, Advocate General Kokott delivered her Opinion in a reference for a preliminary ruling regarding the territorial limitations on the export of decoder cards as a key part of a system of territorial limitations on exclusive licensing of satellite TV broadcasting of top level (English Premier League) football matches
Competition update on wireless access and distribution
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- Germany
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- November 26 2010
Following the auction of frequencies for wireless access that concluded in May 2010 and led, inter alia, to the award of frequencies from the so-called digital dividend (800 MHz band), and pursuant to an undertaking it gave to the EU Commission, the German NRA BNetzA has opened a hearing on the amount and distribution of frequencies held by the four GSM and UMTS operators in Germany, with a view to determining whether the frequency distribution amongst the operators lead to distortion of competition
Project Canvas
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- United Kingdom
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- November 26 2010
On 19 October 2010, Ofcom ruled that it would not open an investigation of Project Canvas despite complaints made by Virgin Media, IPVision and BSkyB, including complaints of alleged potential breaches of the Competition Act 1998
Dutch Competition Authority imposes fines on Dutch media company Wegener and five of its executives totalling EUR20 million
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- Netherlands
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- September 17 2010
The Dutch Competition Authority (“NMa”) imposed fines on the Dutch media company Koninklijke Wegener N.V. (“Wegener”) and five of its executives, totaling more than EUR 20 million
Influencing a dominant company’s conduct can be abusive regardless of own market position
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- Germany
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- September 17 2010
The Hamburg District Court has prevented German publisher Bauer from using the label "Top 100 Titel" on its journals and from urging dominant press wholesalers to prompt their retailers to display "Top 100 Titel" journals in their shops in a favourable manner
Federal Cartel Office specifies merger rules for the media sector
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- Germany
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- September 17 2010
In dissolution proceedings against news agencies ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst ("ddp") and Associated Press Germany ("AP"), the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") has taken the view that the German media specific merger rules are not limited to newspapermagazine publishers and radioTV broadcasters but also apply to news agencies
Competition Appeal Tribunal judgment in respect of BSkyB's acquisition of shares in ITV Plc
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- United Kingdom
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- January 23 2009
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed British Sky Broadcasting's (BSkyB) appeal against the Competition Commission's report and Secretary of State's decision regarding the acquisition and the divestment remedy (in British Broadcasting Group plc v Competition Commission and Secretary of State) but has upheld Virgin's appeal against the Competition Commission's media plurality findings (in Virgin Media v Competition Commission and Secretary of State) in its judgment of 29 September 2008
European court ruling on copyright royalties
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- European Union, Sweden
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- January 23 2009
The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has issued an important judgment in December 2008 on excessive and discriminatory pricing issues in respect of copyright royalties by a copyright collection society STIM, on a reference from the Swedish courts under Article 234 EC on a claim by the commercial broadcasters Kanal 5 Limited and TV4 AB
High Court holds that collective selling and exclusive licensing of media rights by racecourses is not anti-competitive
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- United Kingdom
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- September 29 2008
The High Court has recently dismissed a claim by a betting industry body and four British bookmakers that arrangements between a number of British racecourses for collective and closed selling of media rights to Amalgamated Racing Ltd (‘AMRAC’), a new distributor of media rights to licensed betting offices, infringed competition law
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