The European Commission’s Digital Single Market (Dsm) Strategy has failed to allay growing concerns within the European film and TV industries about the Brussels-based institution’s response to the digital revolution.
An alliance of 11 international organisations from the fields of production, distribution, exhibition, publishing and sports rights issued a statement in reaction to the EC’s strategy document which was unveiled by European Commissioners Andrus Ansip and Günther Oettinger in Brussels yesterday (May 6).
The signatories - ranging from the Fiapf producers’ association and the exhibitors’ organisation Unic through the Independent Film & Television Alliance (Ifta) and the MPAA to the International Video Federation (IVF) and the Germany’s Bundesliga - indicated that they were ¨extremely concerned¨ that some of the Commission’s policy options could ¨negatively impact the sustainability of the film and audiovisual sector, and severely decrease the level of incentives for the production, distribution and dissemination of high quality films and audiovisual works across Europe...
An alliance of 11 international organisations from the fields of production, distribution, exhibition, publishing and sports rights issued a statement in reaction to the EC’s strategy document which was unveiled by European Commissioners Andrus Ansip and Günther Oettinger in Brussels yesterday (May 6).
The signatories - ranging from the Fiapf producers’ association and the exhibitors’ organisation Unic through the Independent Film & Television Alliance (Ifta) and the MPAA to the International Video Federation (IVF) and the Germany’s Bundesliga - indicated that they were ¨extremely concerned¨ that some of the Commission’s policy options could ¨negatively impact the sustainability of the film and audiovisual sector, and severely decrease the level of incentives for the production, distribution and dissemination of high quality films and audiovisual works across Europe...
- 5/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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