Apple TV Broke Starz's Back.(Starz Entertainment Group L.L.C. v. Walt Disney Co. Buena Vista Television)
Multichannel News, March, 2007 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Apple TV, it turns out, was the last straw for Starz Entertainment CEO Bob Clasen in his simmering dispute with The Walt Disney Co. Starz last week filed a federal lawsuit against Disney's Buena Vista Television unit, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract.
According to the suit, under agreements the two companies signed in 1993 and 1999 and extended in 2005, Disney is prohibited from selling its films for transmission over the Internet outside of Starz's exclusive license period. Disney sold the same movies licensed to Starz via Apple's iTunes Music Store and the Wal-Mart Stores video-download site, constituting "a blatant breach" of those licensing agreements, Starz claimed in the suit. Clasen said...
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