Finance & Law

Spanish football's LaLiga has made the latest move in its long-running fight against piracy by joining forces with CEDRO, the Spanish literary association of authors and editors in the publishing sector,…

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has reported a 3-per-cent decrease in year-on-year revenues for the last three months of 2021, with the number of subscribers to its Kayo Sports streaming service…

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (European Leagues) has criticised the EU Parliament, saying that its recent plenary vote on the Digital Services Act (DSA) did not sufficiently…

Media group Discovery is now in exclusive talks to form a sports joint venture with BT with the proposed takeover of the UK telco’s sports arm by DAZN Group having collapsed.

Golf’s Asian Tour is planning to exercise an option to restructure its 12-year joint venture with IMG and acquire the agency’s stake in Asian Tour Media, the tour’s host broadcast and media sales unit. T

Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings Inc, two of the biggest Spanish-language content producers and sports rightsholders in the Americas, have completed their blockbuster $4.8bn (€4.27bn) merger deal to create a new company known as TelevisaUnivision.

The French Government has launched a consultation process with a view to updating the list of major sporting and cultural events protected for access by free-to-air television

Christian Seifert, the former chief executive of the German Football League (DFL), has formed a joint venture with Axel Springer, the media group and publishing house, to create a new German streaming…

Media executives James Murdoch and Uday Shankar are in talks to buy a 39-per-cent stake in Indian broadcaster Viacom18, in a deal that would value the company at $4bn (€3.6bn), according to media reports.

Sky, the Comcast-owned European pay-television broadcaster, saw its direct-to-consumer revenue fall by just under one per cent from $4.08bn (€3.66bn) to $4.0

Spain’s competition regulator, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia, is reported to have been backed by the Audiencia Nacional, the country’s high court, over sanctions it handed out …

Lega Serie A, organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has agreed a three-season extension to its anti-piracy agreement with content protection firm Friend MTS

Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports France has claimed a major win in the fight against piracy after obtaining the first court decision requesting the blocking of fraudulent websites

The creators of the Rojadirecta platform will stand trial with regard to piracy allegations from LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, and the Mediapro agency

Georgia-based Adjara Media Group has agreed a deal to acquire the Ukrainian arm of pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports, strengthening its position in the Eastern European market

Argentina’s competition regulatory agency, the Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia, has set out a number of conditions the Walt Disney Company must fulfil in order to address competition co…