Streaming Barriers and Licensing Borders: The Global Legal Struggle Against Geo-Blocking

Introduction With the digitally networked world of today, streaming has remade content consumption beyond recognition. Platforms like Netflix are globally accessible, but simultaneously sustain territorial limits by the practice of geo-blocking – where user access to content is blocked on a geographical basis. The contradiction indicates deep fault lines between the dream of a borderless […]

The Disney-Fox Merger and Its Ramification

The Simpsons show has made a name for itself as a modern-day Nostradamus. 20 years ago, the show predicted Fox’s takeover by Disney. On 17th December, 2017, the Walt Disney Co. in a $52.4 billion, all-stock deal, made a bid to acquire 21st Century Fox and its entertainment and sports assets to augment their already asset-rich portfolio[1], causing fans of […]