28. 06. 2004

TV Politika in court on piracy charges

BELGRADE, June 28, 2004 – Belgrade’s First Municipal Court will tomorrow begin hearing private charges of piracy brought by film distributor Tuck. Tuck is suing the former director of Politika, Dragan Hadzi Antic, former TV Politika director Goran Kozic and the company’s former film program director Slavenko Bojovic. Tuck lawyer Nenad Milovanovic told B92 that the former Politika executives are being sued for repeatedly broadcasting pirate copies of films during 2000. Milovanovic said that the charges concerned the broadcast of 88 major international hit films on TV Politika between March and October of that year. The films involved included The Matrix, Titanic, Zorro, The Truman Show, Mission Impossible and The Sixth Sense. A separate case is also under way in Belgrade’s Commercial Court, seeking compensation for financial damage caused by the unauthorised broadcasts.