In a potentially significant win for broadcasters, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed a 2015 district court ruling that might have allowed an online service to retransmit their over-the-air signals without their consent. The three-judge appeals court rejected the view that Alki David’s FilmOn could…

This is a stunner. A U.S. District Court judge ruled today that the major broadcast networks may have to license their programming to Alki David’s video streaming service FilmOn X. That flies in the face of previous rulings that allowed them to keep their popular shows off of FilmOn and other services including…

Alki David‘s streaming service “merely seeks to participate in the briefing and oral argument” at the high court it says in a motion to intervene. The main reason: Courts have enjoined FilmOn X from offering over-the-air broadcast signals via the Internet, but have not put a similar restriction on Aereo. FilmOn X is…

A federal judge today found the Alki David-run free-TV-over-the-Internet company in contempt of court for violating a nearly nationwide ban. Hoping to avoid Judge Rosemary Collyer's wrath, FilmOn X claimed in late October that it was system error that led to copyrighted programming from Fox, NBC and ABC being played…

On day of the deadline set by a federal judge last week to explain why she shouldn't hold FilmOn X in contempt of court for violating a nearly nationwide ban, the Alki David-run free-TV-over-the-Internet company basically said "Oops." Calling the looming contempt "a drastic remedy," FilmOn X on Monday said it was…

FilmOn X didn’t gain any traction from Aereo‘s legal win in Massachusetts last week. In fact, today’s decision by a DC-based federal judge to deny the Alki David-run free-TV-over-the-Internet company a modification to the almost nationwide preliminary injunction ordered on September 5 might have landed FilmOn X in…

The government may be shut down but the streaming wars are going on and on in the nation’s capital. Broadcasters today petitioned the Supreme Court over Aereo and fellow streaming service FilmOn X is also back asking a DC-based federal judge to lift some of the almost nationwide injunction she imposed back in early Sep…

Egypt Extends Detention Of Canadian Filmmaker Held Since August Egyptian authorities have extended the detention of Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and his colleague Tarek Loubani, who have been held since August without being charged. Officials say they are being held during an investigating of items found in the…

Broadcasters say that both services violate local TV stations’ copyrights by streaming free, over-the-air transmissions without payment. And the media companies were encouraged by recent court victories over FilmOnX. But Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia, who has been winning most of his legal battles, says not so fast. Since…

That's three legal losses in a row for FilmOn X in a week. Today the D.C. District Court denied emergency stay motions by the company and its CEO Alki David against an almost nationwide injunction from a case launched by Fox Television Stations, ABC and NBC.  The free-TV-over-the-Internet company was trying to stop the…

2ND UPDATE, 12:30 PM: The contempt of court ruling leveled against FilmOn on Tuesday is quickly turning into a battle outside the courts as well. Today plaintiff CBS told me that it did not withhold any licensing agreement from FilmOn from the court because it never received one – despite what the streaming service's…

LONDON AUG 1st 2013 FILMON.COM – the world's largest provider of internet television owned by media billionaire Alki David – today announced a landmark agreement with Spanish state-broadcaster TVE to stream an international version of the channel on a global basis. The historic arrangement will see FilmOn become the…