Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion
5:00 pm
Mr. Mathew Horsman:
There may be mechanisms or some scope for back-stop protections, like for example, the current must-carry arrangements, which are only going to be coming into their own, as it were. This is because now the copyright will go, one assumes, as it is going in the UK. The must-carry provision, which has always been there, has not been invoked in the UK because it has not been needed. This is because there was an exemption on copyright.
My only point about the quantum in terms of the calculation is that it will get calculated as a function of two willing parties, that is to say, the supplier and platform coming to terms. There are ways, unless either really absolutely stops and stalemates-----
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