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Filmmakers fear Brussels will meddle with the release window system. (Photo: m4tik)

Ansip: EU will not change film release system

by Peter Teffer, Strasbourg,

The EU is not planning to change the current 'release window system' for films, or to forbid territorial licensing to pre-finance films, the bloc's digital commissioner Andrus Ansip told members of the European Parliament on Monday (27 April) in Strasbourg.

The system, by which a film is first screened in a cinema, followed by a release on DVD, and then on a video-on-demand service, has been around since the 1980s.

But after commissioner Ansip announced he wanted to end geo-blocki...

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Filmmakers fear Brussels will meddle with the release window system. (Photo: m4tik)

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