25 Oct 2018
SKY NETWORK TELEVISION LTD v MY BOX NZ LTD [2018] NZHC 2768
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 2768
- Court
- High Court
The defendants expressly and repeatedly represented that My Box operations and the use of My Box units to access Sky channels were lawful; those representations were objectively capable of misleading a reasonable consumer. The use of pre‑loaded media boxes with Kodi and add‑ons to locate and stream protected Sky broadcasts necessarily involves unauthorized copying and making works available to a new public, constituting communication to the public under the Copyright Act and the principles in Stichting Brein and related authority. Accordingly the defendants had no reasonably arguable defence…