For the third time since 2000, the screen industry’s copyright disbursal organisation Screenrights has taken the subscription industry to the Federal Court.
At issue is the retransmission fee. The law insists that subscription providers aka Foxtel, pay the free-to-air television sector for the right to put its channels into the Foxtel box, as if they are subscription channels. In August last year Foxtel started to renegotiate the amount. At the end of the year it turned the tap off completely.
