Month: January 2022

UK’s Future Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights Regime

An update via the Alliance for Intellectual Property When the UK left the EU, one of the new powers we gained was to decide our own UK IP Exhaustion regime.  Exhaustion regimes are important because they set the rules by which Intellectual Property (IP)  owners can control the further distribution of their goods (it only […]

DEGI & SEVN Launch First Ever Week-Long Campaign In France: ‘Les VODays’

Today, the Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI), and the Syndicat de l’Edition Vidéo Numérique (SEVN), launch ‘Les VODays’, a new week-long digital campaign across nine of the top digital retailer platforms. Films from Universal Pictures Video France, Sony Pictures Entertainment France, SND Films & WarnerMedia France will be available during Les VODays campaign. The nine digital retailer platforms taking […]

Virgin Media O2 Launches Interactive TV & Film Recommendation Tool In Partnership With The Official Charts Company

Today, Virgin Media O2 has launched its latest innovative platform What Should I Watch? in partnership with the Official Charts Company. The interactive TV and film recommendation tool has been curated to help speed up decision making when choosing what to put on the telly. It comes following a 60% rise in Google searches for […]

2021: Year of Change Breaks Records, Delivers Renaissance for Home Entertainment

Home Entertainment value rose to £3.7 billion in 2021, up 13.3% ‘No Time To Die’[1] is the biggest title of the year with 1.148m retail sales, of which 717.5k physical units sold in two weeks, the largest week one disc sales since 2017, and the biggest ever week one on 4K UHD Warner Bros. Home […]