Re: Plans for Sky's unused spectrum at 28.2 East?
In message , Jim Watt
<jimwatt@aol.no_way> writes
>Broadcasting is a medium that does not respect frontiers.
Europe's leaning tower of babel of languages ensures that language
'scrambling' works quite well across frontiers. The American
distributors don't care so much about, say, German versions of their
material, but they care very much about English language versions. Too
many European countries have adopted English as their second language
for comfort. A European broadcaster buying distribution rights
restricted territory rights for English language material is monitored
closely to ensure that their picture encryption is secure.
It's no good Europeans moaning either, which generally they don't. As
far as the United States is concerned the matter is not open for
discussion. There was a move by the EU to open a dialogue some years ago
but the US copyright owners didn't even reply to letters. They have the
full support of the US state department, too, who maintain that the
issue is not negotiable.
--
James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk
Power Corp are to make a movie of ICE.
http://scripts.digicc.com/powtv/prog_synopsis.php?id=655
date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:26:10 +0000
author: JF
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