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Tellytrack & Phumelela Respond to Hollywoodbets’ Press Releases


The press releases published by Hollywoodbets on 28 and 30 July 2014 refer.

Phumelela has met its Gauteng and Eastern Cape licence conditions.
Phumelela furnished its response to the complaint by the Gauteng off-course
Bookmakers Association to the Gauteng Gambling Board on 20 February 2014.

Phumelela and Tellytrack have answered and will continue to answer any and
all complaints as well as allegations of abuse of dominance and/or
excessive pricing in the appropriate forums.

The matters raised in the Hollywood press releases were addressed in the
Tellytrack and Phumelela joint press release, dated 18 March 2014, and
published in response to the KZN bookmakers’ press release published on 17
March 2014. These matters have no bearing
to the matter at hand.

The matter at hand is simply that Hollywoodbets has chosen not to subscribe
for the visual broadcasts offered by Phumelela and instead has chosen to
flagrantly breach Tellytrack’s copyrighted services.

Hollywoodbets conveniently do not explain why, despite further being
prohibited to do so in terms of their subscription agreements with
Multichoice, they continue to display the Tellytrack content on Channel 239
in their betting outlets.

GBI Racing, who own the exclusive rights to commercially exploit the
intellectual property of British horse racing outside of the U.K., has
ascertained that Hollywoodbets has been displaying British racing in their
betting shops without being licensed to do so. Hollywoodbets has been
required to cease doing so and GBI racing issued a press release in this
regard on 24 July 2014, (copy attached for convenience).

The display of live racing in Hollywood’s betting outlets without being
licensed to do so is simply unlawful. Tellytrack and its partners have
instituted civil as well as  

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