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I don't need to provide a reference because it's obvious that negotiations of rights are currently on an EU basis (because that's the big legal bloc) and they would suddenly have to be UK-specific, and what big company can be bothered to prioritize that?

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Unfortunately negotiations of rights are on a country by country basis. Copyright is not unified nor properly harmonized across the EU (...yet?). To show copyrighted content to all of Europe you need licenses for 28 territories.

This might change, or at least gain some new exceptions ("roaming" for your Netflix account will come for sure; the other measures this campaign demands are up in the air at this point). These improvements of course would not apply if the UK leaves.

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