TV Signal Delivery to Cable Operators and DTH Platform Operators: Primary Copyright Use, Retransmission, or Another Form of Communication to Public?

• Author: Elzbieta Traple
• Position: Institute of Civil Law, professor at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
• Pages: 75-88

TV Signal Delivery to Cable Operators and DTH Platform Operators

2011

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Abstract: The paper discusses new busi-

ness models of transmission of television programs

in the context of definitions of broadcasting and re-

transmission. Typically the whole process of supply-

ing content to the end user has two stages: a me-

dia service provider supplies a signal assigned to a

given TV channel to the cable operators and satel-

lite DTH platform operators (dedicated transmission),

and cable operators and satellite DTH platform oper-

ators transmit this signal to end users. In each stage

the signals are encoded and are not available for the

general public without the intervention of cable/

platform operators. The services relating to the sup-

ply and transmission of the content are operated by

different business entities: each earns money sepa-

rately and each uses the content protected by copy-

right. We should determine how to define the actions

of the entity supplying the signal with the TV pro-

gram directly to the cable/digital platform operator

and the actions of the entity providing the end user

with the signal. The author criticizes the approach

presented in the Chellomedia and Norma rulings, ar-

guing that they lead to a significant level of legal un-

certainty, and poses the basic questions concerning

the notion of “public” in copyright.

TV Signal Delivery to Cable Operators

and DTH Platform Operators

Primary Copyright Use, Retransmission, or Another Form of

Communication to Public?

by Elżbieta Traple*

Institute of Civil Law, professor at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.

© 2010 Elżbieta Traple

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Recommended citation: Elżbieta Traple, TV Signal Delivery to Cable Operators and DTH Platform Operators: Primary Copyright

Use, Retransmission, or Another Form of C ommunication to Public?, 2 (2011) JIPITEC 75, para. 1.

Keywords: Satellite DTH platform, cable operators, retransmission, communication to public, collecting soci-

ety, broadcasting, media service provider, mandatory management by collecting society, audiovisual

media service, equitable remuneration

A. Introduction

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