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But BSkyB's stake remains below the 20 percent threshold permitted by UK media ownership rules.
An appeals court strikes down FCC ownership rules that were often honored in the breach.
Airlines walk a fine line with frequent-flier programs, risking enormous customer backlash if they get too aggressive at enforcing ownership rules.
The NYSE continued to distance itself from its scandal-laden past this week, appointing a new chairman and four new board members, and relaxing seat ownership rules.
The foreign-ownership rules even preclude foreigners from holding the top executive positions in American airlines in which foreign capital owns as much as a 49% stake.
At present, airlines are often prevented from doing this because of complex national ownership rules, most of which are designed to prevent competition from foreign airlines.
The court declared that Federal Communications Commission cross-ownership rules that had prevented one company from owning TV stations and cable franchises in the same market no longer served the public interest.
New Zealand, for example, liberalised foreign-ownership rules in 1989.
To get the maximum bang for its cash and also to satisfy local ownership rules, Telefonica has built its Latin American empire mostly through consortia that it leads but only partly owns.
Countries that have resources, from Russia to Australia, are altering fiscal structures and ownership rules so as to glean as much benefit as possible from their riches, while still reserving sufficient supplies to fuel their futures.
After a long legal fight, Sheffield United had argued successfully that West Ham, who survived in the Premier League at their expense, should pay them damages after breaking third-party player ownership rules by fielding the influential Tevez.
In its otherwise obscure Notice of Proposed Rule Makingcovering radio station ownership rules, the FCC last November made it clear that the agency is skeptical of claims that consolidation has reduced the variety of programming available to listeners.
His low-cost airline, Virgin America, celebrated its first year of flying in August, but Alaska Airlines recently filed a complaint that its rival is violating U.S. foreign ownership rules on domestic airlines and asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a public inquiry.
The agency's deregulation in June 2003 of America's media-ownership rules (which limit the freedom of firms with public-broadcasting licences to buy other media companies) got partially reversed by Congress (in December 2003), and then put on ice altogether by the courts (in June 2004).
Tellingly, the man whom Rupert Murdoch selected to replace Rebekah Brooks as the chief executive of News International in London was Tom Mockridge, a former press adviser to Paul Keating. (As an historical aside, the changes in media ownership rules that enabled Rupert Murdoch to build up his share of the Australian market came into effect under Paul Keating).
Britain and America have widely diffused share ownership with strict rules to protect minority shareholders.
It's a collective system of ownership governed by rules, not exclusive control.
This winter the Russian parliament relaxed rules on foreign ownership of shares, which trade as American Depositary Receipts.
The buyout barons got good news this week, when the Fed relaxed its rules on their ownership of banks.
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Scudamore was responding after Fifa president Sepp Blatter called for stricter rules on foreign ownership of clubs in the UK and abroad.
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Legislation that would tighten rules regarding private ownership of exotic animals passed the Ohio Senate in April and is now being heard in the House of Representatives.
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With European ruling body UEFA planning to bring in new rules governing debt and ownership from 2012 which mean clubs cannot spend more than they earn, the pressure is on to find a safe financial footing.
Moscow's flexing of its muscles in the energy sector - which saw state-owned firm Gazprom temporarily cut off gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine - as well as new rules for the foreign ownership of Russian companies and export tax rises, all have implications for BP.
Every Landesbank has tried to adjust its ownership structure to prepare for the new rules.
It is renegotiating its decades-old agreement with Indonesia's government, which wants Freeport to reduce ownership and pay more royalties, reflecting new rules allowing foreign companies a maximum 49% stake in local operations.
Although the limit applied to local and foreign banks, the July rules followed complaints by lawmakers about foreign ownership in some industries.
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