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EU gives up single digital market for TV and FILM

Postby Paul ZKTV » Tue May 17, 2016 8:24 pm

European CommissionTV broadcasters, platform operator and other providers of audiovisual content can continue to block access to their content for internet users from other EU countries

The planned abolishment of geoblocking will not be pursued any longer, reports German business newspaper Handelsblatt with reference to an EU regulation draft, adding that the European Commission wants to publish the legal document in two weeks.

The leaked draft does prohibit the blocking of websites and the products they offer for citizens from other EU countries. But article 1 makes it clear that audiovisual services are exempt from the rule, for example movies, TV series and sports coverage.

The European Commission will not take up the geoblocking issue again,

The proposed regulation would mean that the lobby groups from the movie and sports rights industry which wanted to preserve the lucrative country-by-country rights allocation have come out on top in the end.


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