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China Tightens Control Over its Growing Online Streaming Industry by Introducing New Regulations

By Gabriela Kennedy & Xiaoyan Zhang on December 28, 2016

On 12 December 2016, the PRC Ministry of Culture released the Administrative Measures for Business Activities of Online Performances (the “Measures”). The Measures target providers of live performances broadcast or streamed over the Internet or a mobile network (“Streaming Services Providers”) who derive a profit from such activities through advertising, sponsorship or by charging for access. The Measures will come into effect on 1 January 2017.
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Live-Streaming Apps and Sporting Events – Copyright Law Concerns

By Benjamin Beck & Konstantin von Werder on August 26, 2015

Posted in Copyright, Social Media, Sports

The right to televise sporting events is one of the most valuable commodities in the broadcasting sector. When reports surfaced that live-streaming apps, such as Periscope and Meerkat, had been used to transmit live streams of the “fight of the century” between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao on 2 May 2015, they raised the issue of the copyright implications of these kinds of applications.
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