Audiovisual content is not only an industry; it is also a fundamental element of a society that shares core common values defined as cultural identity. What Europe lacked in the past –and perhaps still lacks today – is the sense of belonging to a single community and a belief in common ideas and values. […]
[…] VOD services have changed the way we watch content at home and on the move. They have also brought great changes to the production of audiovisual works and, given their increasingly significant position in the audiovisual media services market, they play an expanding role in fostering national and European audiovisual production and distribution. As a consequence, they present a new point of reference in the eternal debate over European cultural identity. […]
[…] The role of VOD players will increasingly be key to the development of European audiovisual productions in the coming years and it is essential to continue to attract investment from these operators. Prescriptive, rigid regulation, left to the discretion of individual member states, imposing in a few cases fixed heavy investments in production for VOD services is the worst scenario for a global player who has to decide in which country it wants to invest more. […]
[…] The European Commission moved in this direction when it proposed two legislative initiatives to upgrade rules governing digital services in the EU: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA).These initiatives form a single set of new rules applicable across the EU to create a safer and more open digital space where the fundamental rights of users are protected and a level playing field is established for businesses. […]
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