Sky is notoriously stern in its attitude to to anyone infringing its copyright on the web, but it appears the broadcaster’s news channel has fallen foul of the rules itself.
As reported by tech blog The Verge, Sky News’ livestream of the Republican presidential candidate debates – featuring a characteristically full-on performance from Donald Trump – was pulled from YouTube yesterday and replaced with a copyright takedown notice.
And whose copyright was Sky News infringing? That would be Fox News, the US channel which is, like Sky, part of Rupert Murdoch’s globe-spanning media empire.
The glitch looks like a simple technical error, rather than a full-on legal dispute or someone at Sky forgetting to tell Fox they were going to provide the evening of light entertainment to those outside the US.
Whatever the cause, hopefully Rupert will see the funny side...
