Court Orders Video Site Zattoo to Stop Inserting Ads in Movies

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 21, 2009 - 10:30am.

Berlin - Film studios Universal (NYSE: GE) and Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) have won a preliminary injunction from a German court against Zattoo, a Switzerland-based video portal that was inserting its own ads into streams of movies that air on free German TV channels, Variety reported.

The studios successfully argued that Zattoo, which counts over 4.2 million registered users, does not have the right to insert commercials into the online TV rebroadcasts.

They are also seeking unspecified additional license fees from Zattoo.

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