TV Without Frontiers, Lawmakers In Tears

The EU is in the process of introducing a Television Without Frontiers (TVWF) directive, which is intended to regulate new forms of television including mobile TV, webcast TV and video downloads over various media. “The thinking behind it is that anything that looks like TV should be regulated like television…But in an era of TV on demand, the EC wants to extend the reach of the legislation to cover “online audio-visual content” which includes Internet based video and other emerging moving visual content. Given that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to define what TV is, the EC has proposed that the legislation deserves a more inclusive name รข

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