Case AT.40023 Cross-border access to pay-TV, 28 September 2016

While demonstrating that the Commission will take action against specific contractual clauses considered to restrict passive selling in relation to digital content, the acceptance of Paramount's Commitments needs to be viewed within the broader context that copyright remains a matter of national law and the Commission does not object to exclusive national licensing arrangements per se.

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Previously published in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (Jeclap) (November 2017).

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