Premier League faces TV rights shake-up

Judgment in ECJ Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08: Football Association Premier League and Others v QC Leisure and Others Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd. Judgment made on the 4 October 2011. A system of licences for the broadcasting of football matches which grants broadcasters territorial exclusivity on a Member State basis and which prohibits television viewers from watching the broadcasts with a decoder card in other Member States is contrary to EU law.
The screening in a pub of football-match broadcasts containing protected works requires the authorisation of the author of those works

ECJ: Press Release, No.102, 2011: Judgment of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-403/08, C429/08 Football Association Premier League and Others, Murphy http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-10/cp110102en.pdf

BBC News, 5.10.11: Premier League games can be shown on foreign decoders http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15162241

ESO: Background information: BSkyB faces hit from ‘landlady’ ruling http://www.europeansources.info/record/bskyb-faces-hit-from-landlady-ruling/

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