The Johannesburg High Court has dismissed eMedia’s application attacking a MultiChoice restriction blocking SABC 2 from showing Rugby World Cup matches on Openview.
The Johannesburg High Court has struck eMedia’s urgent application against MultiChoice off the roll due to lack of urgency.over restrictions it placed in a sub-licensing deal with the SABC, blocking it from showing Rugby World Cup games on Openview.
It reached a last-minute agreement with South Africa’s public broadcaster, the SABC, to broadcast 16 matches live, including every Springboks game. He said it would be commercially imprudent not to attempt to recoup portions of the associated costs in exchange for giving up the exclusivity it paid for.
“To suggest that SABC needs to pay more to show it on Openview does not make sense as there is already no exclusivity in the rights being on Openview,” Rafferty argued. In his original answering affidavit, Jury also said that MultiChoice had previously imposed similar restrictions on content licensed to the SABC, and no objections had been raised then.
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