UK Premier League Fans

A Portsmouth landlady is contesting England's top-flight competition's TV copyright over Saturday afternoon games

The Premier League today embarked on a long-awaited court action that could have profound implications for the future of the £3bn-plus its clubs earn from broadcast contracts and equally severe consequences for fans who like to watch 3pm kick-offs in the pub on a Saturday afternoon.

The European court of justice in Luxembourg was the setting for what appears an uneven legal battle: in one corner, a doughty Portsmouth landlady who wants to continue showing foreign broadcasts of top-flight English football in her pub; in the other, lawyers for the Premier League who claim Karen Murphy, landlady of the Red, White and Blue in Southsea, is breaking copyright law, warning of the dire impact on its revenues and the knock-on effect for the film and television industries if they lose.

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Be interesting to see how this one pans out, and how do the clubs themselves feel about it?

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Portsmouth landlady who wants to continue showing foreign broadcasts of top-flight English football in her pub

its its not on SKY or ESPN or ITV1-3-4 the how does she show foreign english football? if she streams it then that's illegal anyways, But why would she need to stream it when SKy and espn show most of the BIG games anyways. so i dont see where the argument is. im sleepy so maybe ive not gotten the point

You can pick up 3pm kick offs on foreign TV channels with a big dish, Greece in this womans case.

Say you're talking Saturday kickoffs, Sky only normally show the early kick off @ 12:45, followed by the late one at 4:30 / 5:00.

On an average weekend (e.g. two games on sunday), that could be up to six games playing @ 3:00pm on a Saturday, that aren't shown either by ESPN or Sky

Alot of the pubs don't buy these foreign dishes because they're frightened by the legality side of things, but there are those that show games week in and week out with no hassle (if you know where to go obviously)

Here's to hoping this case doesn't take forever to come through....and these pubs don't get fucked for what is effectively just an import from the EU. Why are there different rules for the UK?

FIGHT THE POWER!

right... I remmeber picking up a bournemouth game on chinese sports network stream once. it was rather strange.

Theres a United pub in Huddersfield that shows all the games, and a few others that do similar things. I'll just watch it on my pc but be interesting to see what happens here.

Rupert Murdoch's going to drag his ball sack across her face.