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Piracy: LALIGA becomes the first foreign body to block IPTV sites & services in France

News Tank Football - Paris - News #324808 - Published on 15/05/24 at 11:30

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"LALIGA claimed another victory in the fight against piracy after a Paris (FRA) court ordered (on 07/05/2024) the blocking of websites and IPTV Television via IP, which is distribution of the TV signal via Internet Protocol.

services that infringed on the legitimate broadcasting rights of LALIGA Sector: Spanish professional football league Exclusive commercial agency (for global deals): IMG (since 2018-19) Title Sponsor: • EA Sports (video games publisher): since 2023-24, €30m per… clubs. For the first time in France, a foreign sports entity has obtained a dynamic order under Article L. 333-10 of the French Sports Code, enabling its competitions to be protected by the French authorities against illicit broadcasts on French territory," announced the body on 14/05/2024.

The dynamic nature of the order means that its effectiveness can be extended to illegal sites and servers discovered after the order has been issued. "The interim relief judge ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement, without delay, all measures to prevent access to the sites identified by LALIGA in its summons, as well as to sites not yet identified at the date of the decision," explained the Spanish football body.

"With this decision, LALIGA will now refer the case to Arcom Audiovisual and digital communication regulatory authority, created on 01/01/2022 from the merger of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) and the High Authority for the dissemination of works and… (the French public authority in charge of broadcast and digital media) to obtain the blocking of any new site or service not identified at the time of the judge's decision, in order to prevent or stop the broadcasting of LALIGA EA Sports Spanish 1^st Division (20 clubs); EA Sports (video game publisher) title sponsor for the 2023-2028 cycle and LALIGA Hypermotion matches, or any competitions it organises, which has its audiovisual rights exploited," added the body.

The measures to combat piracy of sports broadcasts in France (adopted in October 2021) have been effective since the creation of Arcom (merger of the CSA French Media Regulatory Authority (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel) and Hadopi) on 01/01/2022.

France/Piracy: 2,086 domain names blocked by Arcom in 2023 (1,284 in 2022)

Arcom blocked 2,086 "illicit sports domain names" illegally broadcasting sporting competitions in 2023, compared with 1,284 in 2022, according to the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication in its report "Lutte contre le piratage de contenus sportifs et culturels - Bilan 2023" (Combating the piracy of sports and cultural content - 2023 Assessment), published on 30/04/2024.
Of these 2,086 blocked domains, 542 were as a result of court injunctions and the remaining 1,544 via notifications from Arcom. A total of 3,370 domain names have been blocked since 01/01/2022, the date on which Arcom was set up and a specific system to combat sports piracy in France was introduced (adopted in October 2021).
"Between 01/01 and 31/12/2023, the system enabled four sports rights holders (Canal+, beIN SPORTS France, the LFP and FFT) to protect 11 competitions or sporting events," said Arcom.
- These were the Top 14 French rugby first division - 14 clubs , the Roland-Garros and Wimbledon Grand Slam tournaments, the Formula 1 and MotoGP World Championships, the 2022 World Cup 22^nd World Cup, held in Qatar in November and December (final on 18/12/2022) , the Africa Cup of Nations African Cup of Nations, known as "CAN" with the French acronym , the UEFA Union of European Football Associations Champions League, Ligue 1 Uber Eats Name of the French Ligue 1 championship for the 2020-2024 cycle.
  
  Uber Eats, a home meal delivery application and subsidiary of Uber an independent driver mobile application, has become the title… , Ligue 2 BKT Name of the French Ligue 2 championship for the 2020-2024 cycle.
  
  Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (BKT), an Indian tyre manufacturer, obtained the naming rights for Ligue 2 from 2020-21 for four seasons… and the Premier League Top English professional football division. 20 clubs. .
"These blocking measures mainly concern live streaming sites and around a hundred IPTV services. Nevertheless, the average processing time remains as efficient as it was in 2022, thanks to very good collaboration with rights holders and ongoing improvements to internal processes," explained Arcom.

LALIGA

Sector: Spanish professional football league

Exclusive commercial agency (for global deals): IMG (since 2018-19)

Title Sponsor:
• EA Sports (video games publisher): since 2023-24, €30m per season

Global partners:
• Puma (equipment supplier): official ball since 2019-20
• San Miguel (beer): 2006-2019 then 2022-2027
• Riyadh Season (festival): official sponsor 2024-2027
• Microsoft (IT): since 2016
• BKT (tyres): 2019-2025
• Sorare (digital trading cards, NFTs): since 2021-22
• Gol-Ball (NFTs)
• Panini (stickers)
• Avery Dennison (adhesive)
• Fanatics (licencing)
• Visit Saudi (tourism national agency)
• Venado (alcohol): regional partner in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador & Honduras) and USA from 2024-25
• Uber Eats (food delivery)

Associated brand:
• Microsoft (IT): technology partner since 30/11/2016

National partners:
• Renfe (national railway of Spain): official rail partner in 2019-20
• Vivo (smartphones): since 2021-22 until 2024-25

Regional partners:
• Exness (brokerage): for Latin America, 2023-2025
• Luckia (sports betting & online casino): for Spain & Mexico, 2024-2027
• Venado (alcohol): in Central America, 2024-25
• Sportsbet.io (sports betting): for the MENA and Turkey, since 2024-25
• SportyBet (sports betting): in Africa, since 2024-25

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28027 Madrid Spain

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