Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, SIGA’s Global CEO and SIGA EUROPE’s Executive Chairman, is participating in tomorrow’s European Commission’s ‘Stakeholders’ Hearing on Combating Online Piracy of Live Content’.
This crucial meeting will bring together 50+ key stakeholders, among which are SIGA and its European subsidiary, SIGA EUROPE, to share their experience and views on how to efficiently tackle unauthorised retransmissions of live events, in particular sports events.
Held in Brussels, the day-long meeting will be divided into three topics, prior to the concluding remarks by the Commission:
- Prompt removal of unauthorised retransmissions of live events;
- Dynamic injunctions tailored to live content;
- Enhancing the cooperation among the relevant national authorities and monitoring the application of the recommendation.
The list of participating organisations in the ‘Stakeholders’ Hearing on Combating Online Piracy of Live Content’ is comprised of:
- AAPA
- ACT
- AEPO-ARTIS
- ARCOM
- AGCOM
- beIN SPORTS France
- CANAL+ Group
- CCIA EUROPE
- Cloudflare
- COMMUNIA
- Danish Rights Alliance
- DAZN GROUP
- DFL Deutsche Fussball Liga
- DOT Europe
- EBU
- EGBA
- EMMA-ENPA
- EPC
- ETNO
- EUROCINEMA
- EuroISPA
- FAPAV
- Federation of European Publishers (FEP)
- FIAPF
- GESAC
- Giga Europe
- Hellenic Copyright Organization
- IBIA
- ICMP
- IFPI
- IGAC
- Impala
- International Olympic Committee
- ISFE
- LaLiga
- Ligue de Football Professionnel
- Mapinet
- Mediapro TV
- Meta
- MPA EMEA
- News Media Coalition
- News Media Europe
- NOS
- Pearle* – Live Performance Europe
- SIGA & SIGA EUROPE
- Sky
- SROC
- Stichting BREIN
- TELEFÓNICA
- Twitch Interactive
- UEFA
- VAUNET
- VIVENDI
SIGA’s commitment to this pressing concern is well known: in September 2022, together with SROC and ACT, SIGA launched the Anti-Piracy Pledge during the Sport Integrity Week.
In less than a month, the signatories list grew from 3 to 108 (read here), after engaging all relevant stakeholders
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