A next step for territorial copyright licenses for on-demand audio-visual services in the light of the EU Digital Single Market

Miriam Ettel; Paul de Bijl

doi:10.1080/1369118X.2019.1705375

A next step for territorial copyright licenses for on-demand audio-visual services in the light of the EU Digital Single Market

Miriam Ettel, Paul de Bijl

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Abstract

Despite recent efforts to establish a European Digital Single Market (DSM), access to audio-visual (AV) works through on-demand service providers, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, continues to be restricted across jurisdictions to the detriment of consumers through geo-blocking measures. This paper introduces a proposal for a central clearing house for AV rights which facilitates the cross-border provision of AV services and thereby contributes to the creation of the DSM. To ensure that the adoption of the proposal enhances the efficiency of the market, we assess whether it meets specific criteria that pertain to market design and the functioning of the market for AV works.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1551–1567
Number of pages	17
Journal	Information, Communication & Society
Volume	24
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1705375
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Funding Information:
We are grateful to Thibault Schrepel (Dept. of Public Economics Law, Utrecht University) and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Digital Single Market
central clearing house
copyright
geo-blocking
on-demand audio-visual works

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