Restaurant, Owner Liable Under Communications Act, For ‘Publishing’ Licensed Fight

Mealey's (June 26, 2019, 8:57 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A federal judge in California on June 19 ruled in favor of a closed-circuit distributor of sport and entertainment programming on its claims that a restaurant and its owner violated Section 605 of the Communications Act and are liable for the conversion of an IBF World Middleweight Championship fight after the restaurant “published” the fight without purchasing a license from the distributor (G&G Closed Circuit Events, LLC v. Lucina Contreras Valencia, et al., No. 18-0423, S.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102826)....