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Pubs hit with Premier League piracy fines
A range of licensed establishments across the UK and abroad have been hit with fines levied for unauthorised broadcasts of Premier League football using foreign satellite systems. Separately, a supplier of illegal systems to pubs has, following a private prosecution instigated by the Premier League, been ordered to pay £125,000.
The sum will be paid to the UK Treasury who will pass 50 per cent of it onto the police and other statutory bodies involved in the investigation which led to the prosecution.
The pubs ordered to pay a total of £92,603 in costs to the Premier League for breach of copyright are:
A range of licensed establishments across the UK and abroad have been hit with fines levied for unauthorised broadcasts of Premier League football using foreign satellite systems. Separately, a supplier of illegal systems to pubs has, following a private prosecution instigated by the Premier League, been ordered to pay £125,000.
The sum will be paid to the UK Treasury who will pass 50 per cent of it onto the police and other statutory bodies involved in the investigation which led to the prosecution.
The pubs ordered to pay a total of £92,603 in costs to the Premier League for breach of copyright are:
- The Victoria, North Shields – ordered by the High Court to pay £9,165
- The Wessington, Washington – ordered by the High Court to pay £8,901
- Byker and Heaton Union, Newcastle – ordered by the High Court to pay £8,942
- T Tonic, Chaplins, Café Purple, Arizona, The Point (five pubs under common ownership, Sunderland) – settlement with court order for £10,000 of costs
- Gatsby, Sunderland – settlement with court order for pay £7,000 of costs
- The Dog & Gun, Banbury – ordered by the High Court to pay £9,825
- The Duke’s Head, Dartford – settlement with court order for £5,500 of costs
- Railway Hotel, Manchester – settlement with court order for £10,000 of costs
- Carsons Bar, Manchester – settlement with court order for £5,000 of costs
- The Woodpecker, Manchester – agreed to pay £6,000
- The Roundabout, St Helens – settled with court order for £5,500 of costs
- Virtuoso (formerly Ketts Tavern), Norwich – settled with court order for £6,770