TV Everywhere has announced an investment in KLipcorp IP Ltd, a company specialising in IP protection in the digital age.
KLipcorp assist clients such as leading sports governing bodies, cinema and TV rights owners in monitoring and policing digital piracy. The company has already worked for the Football Association, IMG and the PGA.
A combination of technical and legal techniques are used to track and remove content from illegal online distribution.
KLipcorp will join rights management software company Rights Tracker in the TVE portfolio.
"We see tremendous synergies between Klipcorp and some of the other companies in our portfolio," comments TVE CEO Iolo Jones. "In particular, Rights Tracker and KLipcorp can offer an end-to-end rights management solution to rights holders that will help them identify, exploit, protect and maximize revenue from their properties."
KLipcorp was founded by Peter Lewinton who has worked on digital rights issues with the FA Premier League, ESPN, NBA, TWI, BBC Worldwide, Eurosport, Augusta National, Fox Sports, Football League, Football Conference and PGA European Tour. He started his career at IMG after graduating in Law from Oxford University.
“IP Piracy is a major challenge for all rights owners and distributors and we help to address that problem. I am very pleased to welcome TVE as an investor.” Peter Lewinton.
About KLipcorp
KLipcorp assist clients in protecting the value of their intellectual property in an age where digital piracy is widespread and largely unchecked, causing significant damage to the revenues of media companies across all formats but in particular cinema, television, print and music.
KLipcorp are specialists in combating online piracy through a deep understanding of the distribution of content online and the legal issues surrounding copyright and trademark law in the digital space, using a combination of technical processes and calling on the skills of leading legal practitioners. The service:
- Identifies infringement of intellectual property rights;
- Investigates sources of infringement, identifying the pirates for the purposes of preventative action;
- Utilises legal and technological resources to terminate ongoing infringement;
- Offers bespoke consultations on how to prevent infringement of IP rights;
- Secures compensation from pirates and infringing IP networks, sharing the proceeds with the rights holders thus allowing rights holders to view anti-piracy activities as a revenue rather than a cost centre.
The company’s services come in four stages:
1. Pre-notification of rights ownership to potential illegal distributors
2. Monitoring and takedown
Sites that link to streaming content (but do not host anything)
- Name of the site
- Screenshot of the site
- URL
- Contact information of the site (e-mail address, etc)
- Action taken (f.e. e-mail send, contact form used, etc)
- Response (yes / now)
- Response time
Sites that host the content
- Name of the site
- Screenshot of the site
- URL
- Contact information of the site (e-mail address, etc)
- Action taken (f.e. e-mail send, contact form used, etc)
- Response (yes / no)
- Response time
P2P linking sites
- Name of the site
- Screenshot of the site
- URL
- Contact information of the site (e-mail address, etc)
- Action taken (f.e. e-mail send, contact form used, etc)
- Response (yes / no)
- Response time
P2P data gathering
- Name of the site
- URL (where stream was found)
- Stream working (online yes / no)
- Number of IP Addresses
In a separate excel table, IP Tracking data as follows:
- IP Addresses
- ISP Name,
- Timestamp,
- infringing site where the P2P stream was found
Video recording of illegal streams
3. Stage 1 legal action
Distribution of infringement letters to:
· Hosting sites
· ISPs
· Individual Infringers
4. Further activity
Management of full blown litigation – retention of correct experts
Appointment of investigators if required
