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European Union plans to regulate moving images will threaten new services such as online games and mobile phone clips, British media watchdog Ofcom said on Wednesday.The Office of Communications said the findings came from a study it commissioned into the possible impact of the planned EU rules being debated in the European Parliament and member states.
Many new media services were at the early stage of development and may locate or relocate outside the EU to avoid the new rules, Ofcom said.
EU plans threaten new media development - Ofcom [today.reuters.co.uk]
[ofcom.org.uk...]
At least ofcom is talking sense by raising issues over the risks of such a move by the EU.
Ofcom believes that this report highlights some important economic risks... Britain is, however, relatively isolated in its push to remove new media from the scope of the EU rules.
Isn't this just a case of UK media corporations, via Ofcom, saying forget about regulation - what about the money?
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