With a long-gestating broadcasting reform bill looming in France, local TV groups such as Canal Plus and TF1 are gearing up to lobby hard and fight independent producers in order to increase IP own…
, its library will be pretty bare compared to other local services like the U.K.’s BritBox. Each TV group will have to keep repurchasing rights to feed the service.
But those talks promise to be stormy. For French TV channels, being allowed a 50-50 split of independent and in-house productions would be a great improvement. But Nicolas de Tavernost, the president of M6, told Le Figaro newspaper last week that rights ownership would wind up being even more restrictive than before, both in scope and duration, under the proposed changes.
The French broadcasting authority has suggested that non-compliant streamers would have their services suspended by French internet providers. But French culture minister Franck Riester told journalists that discussions with Netflix were going smoothly, more so than with French TV channels.
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