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ALL networks will have to "clear right" post brexit

(March 2018)

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A former member
It's the second bit that seem to be more interesting since the first part we never had in the first place... So the BBC /ITV will now to talk with the french etc and the french networks will need to talk to BBC and ITV?

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/28/brexit-netflix-portability/

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Thanks to Brexit, UK residents won't be able to access BBC iPlayer or native Netflix programming when traveling around the EU. Rules just passed to let customers "carry" their copyrights with them while traveling, but that will end next year, as spotted by Politico. Currently, if you live in the UK and visit France, you can only access the French version of Netflix. New EU legislation, however, will allow you to access the library that you would normally find in your home market. Brexit, though, means Brits will lose out on these benefits starting March 29th, 2019.

Broadcast TV will be affected too. UK-based networks will have to "clear rights" with every member state of the EU where the signal lands, if they're to serve viewers. That goes both ways, and will affect EU broadcasters as well. Music streaming will be affected too. That's in addition to recent news that the UK will potentially be excluded from the Galileo GPS satellite program. For more info on what's at stake when the UK exits the European Union, hit the source PDF below.

BR
Brekkie
That missing "s" in the title is quite crucial. Although it feels like we're close to that position pre-Brexit anyway.
MI
Mike516
623058 posted:
It's the second bit that seem to be more interesting since the first part we never had in the first place... So the BBC /ITV will now to talk with the french etc and the french networks will need to talk to BBC and ITV?

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/28/brexit-netflix-portability/

Quote:


Thanks to Brexit, UK residents won't be able to access BBC iPlayer or native Netflix programming when traveling around the EU. Rules just passed to let customers "carry" their copyrights with them while traveling, but that will end next year, as spotted by Politico. Currently, if you live in the UK and visit France, you can only access the French version of Netflix. New EU legislation, however, will allow you to access the library that you would normally find in your home market. Brexit, though, means Brits will lose out on these benefits starting March 29th, 2019.

Broadcast TV will be affected too. UK-based networks will have to "clear rights" with every member state of the EU where the signal lands, if they're to serve viewers. That goes both ways, and will affect EU broadcasters as well. Music streaming will be affected too. That's in addition to recent news that the UK will potentially be excluded from the Galileo GPS satellite program. For more info on what's at stake when the UK exits the European Union, hit the source PDF below.


We do technically have the first part - effective for one year: the rules are only just about to come into force.

Over on the continent, there have been lots of announcements about being able to take services like Sky Go (Germany) on holiday, with the local equivalents of TVPlayer doing the same.
RD
rdd Founding member
The first part refers to the portability directive, and basically is supposed to allow a user temporarily visiting another member state to access the likes of Sky Go while on holidays or business trip.

I’m confused about the reference to clearing rights in the second part. What’s different to the current situation? My understanding was that Sky and other UK broadcasters (excluding ITV and Channel 5) already clear rights for Ireland?
IS
Inspector Sands
rdd posted:

I’m confused about the reference to clearing rights in the second part. What’s different to the current situation? My understanding was that Sky and other UK broadcasters (excluding ITV and Channel 5) already clear rights for Ireland?

It's not something I've heard of but it sounds like currently copyrights are cleared once for the whole of the EU in the country where the broadcaster creates the channel. I imagine music clearance is the obvious example - a TV channel in the UK will clear music through the British music licensing bodies like PRS but won't have to do it through the French, German, Irish etc. The same for any other rights payment


I'm sure someone will correct me if I've interpreted that wrongly.


There is another post Brexit issue for broadcasters and that's channel licencing. Currently a TV channel can be licensed in one EU member country and transmit to any other EU member. For example the various localised Discovery services come from London and are licensed by Ofcom, not the equivalent in France, German, Italy etc. A few Scandinavian channels have come from London to get round their stricter advertising rules.

But that probably won't be the case after this time next year, or the transition period if that happens. A few months ago there was an item in the news that a few large broadcasters are deciding whether to leave the UK as they can't be certain that they'll be able to stay:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-latest-news-media-broadcasters-uk-headquarters-amsterdam-eu-talks-discovery-communications-a7882026.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41875853
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 29 March 2018 9:18am - 3 times in total

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