• Plymouth licensee fined £14,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports

    Man fined more than £22,000 for illegally showing BT Sport & Sky Sports football

    Yesterday (24th September) a Liverpool pub supervisor was fined more than £22,000 for illegally showing BT Sport and Sky Sports football matches following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against [...]

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    COURTS CONVICT LICENSEES IN STOCKPORT AND RUTLAND FOR ILLEGAL SKY USE

    Licensees in Stockport and Rutland have been convicted and fined for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises following successful prosecutions by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’). In the [...]

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  • Lancashire pub company convicted and fined after illegally showing Sky Sports broadcasts from Ireland

    The only legal way to show Sky Sports programming in pubs and clubs in mainland UK is through a commercial viewing agreement from Sky Following a successful prosecution by The [...]

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  • Islington landlord ordered to pay over £4,800 for illegal Sky use

    Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), the licensee of The Halfway House Bar in Islington has been convicted and fined for showing Sky Sports illegally [...]

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  • London pub ordered to pay over £5,000 for illegal Sky use

    Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’), the licensee of The Acorn on Queensbridge Road in East London has been convicted and fined for showing Sky [...]

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  • Pub Licensees in Liverpool and Manchester ordered to pay more than £6,000 for illegal Sky use

    Following successful prosecutions by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), licensees of the Hark to Towler in Heywood, Greater Manchester, and Jimmy O’s in Liverpool, have been convicted and fined [...]

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  • FACT secures record £22,600 in fines and costs after conviction for illegal Sky use in pubs

    Latest order brings fines & costs awarded since 1st July 2014 to £68,765.57 as part of efforts to protect thousands of law-abiding pubs The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’) has [...]

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  • Manchester Licensee ordered to pay over £6,000 for illegal Sky use

    Carolyn Caroline Dandy, the Designated Premises Supervisor and the Premises Licence Holder of The Concert Inn (3 Bolton Road, Manchester, M46 9TQ), was fined following a successful prosecution by the [...]

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    Billericay Licensee ordered to pay over £4,000 for illegal Sky use.

    Linda Anne Webber, the Designated Premise Supervisor of The Nags Head, 50 Heath Road, Billericay, CM11 1HS, was fined following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’) [...]

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  • Newcastle Licensee ordered to pay over £9,500 for illegal Sky use

    Trevor Gould, the Designated Premise Supervisor of The Dolly Peel, 137 Commercial Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear NE33 1SQ, was fined following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against [...]

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  • Pirate DVD couple ordered to pay back £130,000 by Court

    Mark Small, 47, was jailed for nine months earlier this year after investigators discovered he was running a sophisticated and profitable business selling bootleg DVDs of classic BBC programmes. His [...]

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  • £67,500 confiscated from counterfeit DVD seller

    At Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday (8th August), a Confiscation Order for £67,500 was made against Satnam Panesar (DOB 21-03-1971). Panesar, from Newton Mearns, Glasgow, had previously pled guilty to infringing [...]

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