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Mapping of licensing systems for audiovisual media services in EU-28

  • REPORT / STUDY
  • Pubblikazzjoni 17 Settembru 2018

Almost thirty years after the adoption of the Television Without Frontiers Directive -now replaced by the Audiovisual Media Service Directive currently under revision - the issue of audiovisual service licensing remains non harmonised and has led to a wide variety of national models.

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European Audiovisual Observatory European Audiovisual Observatory report

The ‘Mapping of licensing systems for audiovisual media services in EU-28’ report prepared by the European Audiovisual Observatory for the European Commission under the Creative Europe Programme provides both a mapping and a description of licensing and related systems for audiovisual media services in the European Union, and a comparative analysis on the functioning of these various systems.