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JumpTV launches as both sides agree on Copyright Board timetable for tariff

Broadcast | May 3, 2001

After months of legal wrangling, JumpTV.com Canada Inc went live this week with eight television channels from around the world, but none from Canada. The ongoing copyright dispute over whether JumpTV has the right to retransmit local TV signals over the Internet means the company is so far limited to carrying European, Asian and some North American specialty TV channels for which it has licence deals.

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