Sky heading for trial against Fairfax over use of Olympics footage

Sky heading for trial against Fairfax over use of Olympics footage
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Sky Network Television is mulling a High Court challenge for use by Fairfax Media in New Zealand of video from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Sky lost a High Court challenge against Fairfax's use of footage on the stuff.co.nz website, which it claimed breached the 'fair use' provisions of the Copyright Act that allow rival publishers to use snippets of footage to report the news. Justice John Fogarty declined an interim injunction application from Sky against Fairfax in an oral judgmen...