Entertainment & Sports,
Administrative/Regulatory
Apr. 17, 2015
Curtailing piracy of live sports broadcasts
With the support of the Obama administration, legislative solutions that have been proposed would give additional tools to the justice department to help deter unauthorized streaming piracy for commercial gain.
Makan Delrahim
Assistant Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Makan previously was a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP in Los Angeles. He is the former chief of staff and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and former senior Justice Department official.
Approximately five years ago, the House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of then-Chairman John Conyers, D-MI, held the first hearing to examine the state of copyright laws protecting sports broadcasts. The impetus for this hearing was the natural challenges technology poses to the static copyright laws in providing adequate protection for the creative community, such as the creators of music, movies, books and TV shows.
The House committee and later the Senate Judiciary ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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