Media lawyers meet in Brussels as Audio Visual Directive is reformed
by Jane WhyatBoxsets, Netflix, video on demand – all Europe’s many international TV and video services will soon be governed by a new Audio Visual Directive. Converging technologies mean that some newspapers that publish online videos (for example, Bild, the Guardian) will also be regarded as ’TV-like’ and face a new regulatory regime.
Insights into the new Directive were presented at the CIRCOM European broadcasters conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, by Laura Sboarina of Cullen International. You can watch her presentation here.
The main impact of the new Directive will be to establish clear simple rules on the Country of Origin (COO)…
