So what does this really mean

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>    From: Jim web
>    Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 18:03

> One hope of remaining in the EU is that the EU has been moving towards a
> 'no boarders' approach to broadcasting.

Unfortunately the Television without Frontiers Directive does not go far 
enough.  Even so, as a national broadcaster funded by what is in effect 
although not in law a tax, the BBC ought to be upholding the law.  To agree 
national copyright licences is an unlawful partitioning of the Single 
Market.  Far from promoting the Single Market, the UK broadcasters have been 
going in the opposite direction by leasing satellite transponders with 
narrower and narrower beams.

I am not convinced by the argument that European copyright licences would be 
much more expensive because 38% of the EU population speak English as an 
additional language.   People want to watch television in their mother 
tongue.  13% of the EU population have English as their mother tongue, the 
same as Italian.  For German the figure is 18%.  German broadcasters are 
very liberal at making their television channels freely available.  The 
Italians make SD RA1, RAI2 and RAI3 available unencrypted.