Showing television content to guests or to the public is itself an act of communication to the public under copyright law - even when the underlying stream is free to access. The venue operator is responsible for holding all required public-performance and collective-rights licences for the country of deployment.
HtlApp provides only the technical software interface. We do not, and cannot, grant communication-to-the-public rights.
Venues in Italy additionally owe the television licence fee on the equipment itself, whatever is shown on it. See section 05.
This notice describes the operation, scope, and limitations of the Live TV streaming functionality (the “Service”) provided as part of HtlApp by DigitalVisionAir s.r.l. (“we”, “us”). It applies to all customers, venue operators, and end users. Continued use of the Service constitutes acceptance of this notice.
The Service provides access to free-to-air and publicly accessible live television streams made available by third-party broadcasters and platforms for public distribution on the open internet. We do not produce, license, broadcast, or otherwise originate the audio-visual content. We provide a technical software interface through which our customers can configure and display third-party streams on their own devices.
We make available only streams whose upstream source publishes the channel for public consumption on the open internet or through platforms whose commercial model is built on third-party distribution.
We do not redistribute:
We do not circumvent geographic restrictions or any technical protection measure. Where a stream is restricted by its operator, that restriction is preserved.
For the majority of channels, the playback device fetches the stream directly from the broadcaster’s delivery network. Our servers are not in the data path.
For a limited subset of channels, the Service uses a transparent technical proxy for browser compatibility. In these cases our servers retrieve the stream manifest from the upstream source and pass the bytes through so that the playback device can render the stream within standard web security constraints. We do not store, cache to disk, transcode, or modify the audio-visual content of any stream. All content remains under the editorial and technical control of the originating broadcaster.
We exercise no editorial control over the content of third-party streams. Stream availability, quality, geographic accessibility, and content are determined entirely by the upstream provider and may change or be discontinued at any time without notice.
Where the Service is deployed in hotels, guest rooms, common areas, restaurants, lobbies, retail premises, or any commercial or public venue, the act of communicating television content to guests or to the public is a separate and distinct “communication to the public” under applicable copyright law. This obligation is independent of any rights cleared by the upstream broadcaster for the streaming of the channel.
The venue operator - and not DigitalVisionAir - is solely responsible for obtaining and maintaining all collective rights licences and public-performance authorisations required by the law of the country in which the venue is located, including authors’ rights, related rights of producers and performers, and any sector-specific tariffs applicable to the hospitality or commercial-venue category.
We provide only the technical conduit. We do not grant, and cannot grant, any public-performance, broadcast, retransmission, or communication-to-the-public right.
By deploying the Service in a commercial or public venue, the venue operator warrants that all required licences are in place, current, and compliant with applicable tariff structures, and indemnifies and holds harmless DigitalVisionAir s.r.l. against any claim, demand, action, fine, penalty, or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from the absence, lapse, or insufficiency of such licences.
This section concerns venues located in Italy. It is provided for information only and is not tax or legal advice.
The Italian television licence fee is not a copyright licence and not a content fee. It is owed on the possession of equipment, by anyone holding one or more apparatus “atti o adattabili alla ricezione delle radioaudizioni” - suitable for, or adaptable to, the reception of broadcast transmissions (R.D.L. 21 February 1938 no. 246, art. 1). Where such equipment is held in the premises of a business, in places open to the public, or otherwise outside the family sphere, the fee due is the special subscription (canone speciale), assessed per venue by category of activity and by the number of sets installed - including sets in guest rooms as well as in common areas. The domestic fee is collected with the household electricity bill; the special subscription is not, and is paid separately.
Deploying the Service does not create an exemption. In particular:
Where a screen genuinely has no broadcast tuner - a commercial signage panel, or a monitor driven only over HDMI - the assessment differs. That determination rests with the venue operator and its own advisers, on the actual equipment installed.
DigitalVisionAir s.r.l. does not collect, declare, remit, or discharge the television licence fee on behalf of any customer, and nothing in the Service, in its documentation, or in any commercial material we publish should be read as an exemption from it. The fee is owed by the venue operator directly, alongside and independently of the public-performance and collective-rights licences described in section 04.
Official sources: Agenzia delle Entrate, Canone TV; Agenzia delle Entrate, normativa e prassi; canone.rai.it for the special subscription and its current tariffs.
We operate a formal notice-and-action procedure in accordance with applicable EU and Italian law governing online intermediary services and copyright enforcement.
Rights holders, or their authorised representatives, who identify a stream they believe is being made available through the Service without authorisation may submit a takedown notice to digitalvisionair@legalmail.it.
To be valid, a notice must contain:
Streams subject to a valid notice will be removed promptly, typically within twenty-four (24) hours of verification, and in any event within the timeframes required by applicable law. We reserve the right to require clarification or additional evidence and to refer manifestly unfounded or abusive notices to the competent authority.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any warranty as to stream availability, content suitability, geographic accessibility, fitness for any particular purpose, or non-infringement of third-party rights.
End users and venue operators access third-party content at their own risk and subject to the terms of the originating broadcaster. We are not responsible for any acts or omissions of upstream broadcasters, content delivery networks, or rights holders.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service is limited to the fees paid by the customer to DigitalVisionAir s.r.l. in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, or data.
Nothing in this notice limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable mandatory law.
We may update this notice from time to time to reflect changes in applicable law, regulatory guidance, or service operation. The version date shown at the top of this page indicates the date of the most recent update. Continued use of the Service after publication of an updated version constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
This notice is governed by the laws of the Italian Republic, excluding its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this notice, or the Service, is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Rome, Italy, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rules that confer jurisdiction on the consumer’s place of residence.