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Another month, another salvo in the on-going multi-pronged legal trench warfare between the broadcasters and FilmOn founder Alki David. This time, it's CBS who is back in court against the billionaire digital media entrepreneur. Today the network asked U.S. District Court in New York to enter an order (read it here)…

Media provocateur Alki David‘s service stopped streaming over-the-air broadcast signals in DC in May, after ABC, Fox, and NBC filed a copyright infringement suit in federal court . But now he says he’s back on in the Nation’s Capitol. He’s also returning fire with a countersuit (<a…

Looks like the streaming of network TV is about to end in Washington DC. Less than a week after ABC, NBC and Fox filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court in DC against Alki David's FilmOn and his Aereokiller service, the media industry provocateur says he's pulling the broadcasters from his streaming…

ABC, NBC and Fox today filed a lawsuit against digital entrepreneur Alki David‘s FilmOn and his Aereokiller service, claiming copyright infringement. Allbritton, which owns ABC’s TV station Washington DC also is a plaintiff in the suit. Filed in Federal District Court in D.C. on David’s 45th birthday, the complaint (re…

The freewheeling head of FilmOn has to stop using names including Aereokiller and BarryDriller.com for his broadcast streaming service according a settlement overseen by U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins. The decision appears to end three lawsuits: Last year IAC chief Barry Diller — a major investor in Aereo — s…

UPDATE, 10:51 AM: Aereo spokesperson Virginia Lam says the company is “disappointed that the judge declined to rule on the merits on an emergency basis” but adds that it is “confident that when the merits are considered in connection with a preliminary injunction motion, Aereo will prevail.” PREVIOUS, 8:14 AM: U.S…

In a perfect world, FilmOn’s Alki David would stop fooling around with personal and corporate names and let the courts deal with serious questions instead of whether he’s done something to sully someone’s reputation or infringe on a trademark. But since we live in an imperfect world, some poor judge now may have to…

The media industry provocateur is irked that journalists (including me) take his bete noir, Barry Diller-backed Aereo, more seriously than his FilmOn.TV. But now Alki David will bring his message directly to the public. He says that he’ll start an ad campaign in the New York tri-state area to promote his streaming…

I’m getting a headache trying to keep track of FilmOn‘s Alki David feud with Aereo, and especially the lawsuits over who has the right to use different corporate names. David’s already defending himself in a suit filed by IAC chief Barry Diller, a major Aereo backer, over a web site David created called BarryDriller.co…

Wild Bunch Exec Protests High Costs Of French Filmmaking An editorial written by Wild Bunch co-founder and sales chief Vincent Maraval has whipped up a mini-storm within the French film industry. The exec, who's had a hand in such films as The Artist, The Wrestler, Pan's Labyrinth, Fahrenheit 9/11, City Of God and Marc…

ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox got a step closer today to shutting down Alki David's online streaming of their shows. Judge George Wu granted the networks their mutually desired tentative preliminary injunction against the digital entrepreneur’s Aereokiller service this afternoon, Deadline has learned. While that doesn't mean…

I can’t tell whether the digital entrepreneur is spending a lot of money to goof on everybody, or whether he seriously believes he can generate a profit in strange enterprises that reflect his idiosyncratic sensibilities. In any case, Alki David is at it again today: He’s introducing a lineup of TV shows on KILM…