From legal battle to legal battle, Mediaset will collect more than 5,5 million euros from the French portal DailyMotion, Vivendi group. The latter was sentenced to pay compensation by the Court of Rome for uploading 995 videos covered by copyright on his website without any authorization since 2006.
This was announced by Mediaset itself, communicating the successful ruling of the Court which, in addition to ordering Dailymotion to pay the costs of the proceedings, indicated the penalty at 5 euros for each day of delay in cancelling. In addition to this legal action, launched in 2012, Mediaset - specifies Radiocor - has another six similar ones underway again against the French portal which, the note from the Italian group indicates, "considering the economic criteria recognized in the first sentence, could give rise to a total compensation of more than 200 million euros”. Programs such as Le Iene, Verissimo, Camera Cafe', Zelig and Mai Dire Gol have ended up on the DailyMonn platform. On the basis of an official technical consultancy, the Italian court, in line with previous compensation sentences, determined the damage to be liquidated at 695 euros for each minute illegally transmitted (7556 the total minutes calculated).
The legal battle with Vivendi now continues on other fronts. Second rumors published by Reuters, in fact, the Italian law under which the French group Vivendi was forced to freeze most of its voting rights in Mediaset may not comply with European law. The agency quotes an opinion - not yet made public - of the EU Commission viewed by Reuters. However, the non-binding opinion risks strengthening Vivendi's position in the long legal dispute between it and Mediaset. The dispute between the two groups has been dragging on since 2016, after the failure to sell Premium pay TV and the subsequent raid by Vivendi, which built a 28,8% stake in the Cologno group.
