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Can you go into detail how we could improve https://endgeoblocking.eu/#todo https://endgeoblocking.eu/#todo ? I'll expand, at the risk of indulging in jargon:
by c3o 10y ago
Can you go into detail how we could improve https://endgeoblocking.eu/#todo https://endgeoblocking.eu/#todo ?
I'll expand, at the risk of indulging in jargon:
1. Pass EU law that applies the country of origin principle as seen in the Cable and Satellite Directive to online "broadcasts" as well, establishing legal grounds for services to make passive (non-advertised) sales to customers from countries they have not acquired distribution rights for.
2. The European Commission clarifies that contractual clauses requiring inner-EU geoblocking are null because they do not constitute justified exceptions from the anti-discrimination/antitrust provisions Article 20 of the Services Directive and/or Article 101 TFEU.
3. Parliament & Council pass the Portability Regulation before them today without adding undue restrictions, enabling European to take their paid content subscriptions with them across borders for temporary stays.
The result of these 3 easily doable actions would be to massively reduce geoblocking within the EU by removing the most common obligations to geoblock: Contractual clauses by rightholders and legal uncertainty/risk that causes overblocking/geoblocking-by-default.
Rightholders could continue to bind distributors/services to the release window system (cinemas first, then DVD, then VoD), to restrict which countries they may actively target/advertise to, and of course retain full autonomy over dubbing/subtitling and other localization.
Services could continue to geoblock to comply with other local laws (e.g. gambling, child protection).