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After being branded a pirate IPTV provider by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment and agreeing to pay $50 million in damages, Omniverse One World Television now has a victory of its own. All along the company argued that it had entered into a content licensing agreement in good faith and as a result has now been awarded $50 million in damages.
When the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) sued IPTV provider Omniverse One World Television and its owner in a California court in early 2019, the case looked relatively straightforward. But that wasn’t to be the case.
Omniverse Believed It Was Fully Licensed
US streaming company wins $50m to cover piracy damages
03-02-2021
16-09-2016
Defunct US television streaming company Omniverse One World Television has been awarded $50 million in damages after a US federal court found that its copyright licensing contract had been breached.
The dispute over the company’s licensing arrangements arose in February 2019, when the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) sued Omniverse and its owner Jason DeMeo.
ACE held that Omniverse supplied infringing content to third-party suppliers including Dragon Box, HDHomerun, Flixon TV, and SkyStream TV.
But DeMeo contended that his company had gained the required IP rights and pointed to its licensing contract with cable provider HovSat, which he believed had a deal with DirecTV to distribute the disputed TV content.