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In Germany it was even worse. The public broadcasters launched a huge portal where you could watch pretty much everything in their catalog. The private broadcasters sued and won and now content is only available for two weeks after it was shown on TV. We paid for it to be produced by tax money, yet private companies were allowed to lock it up!

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In Norway the public broadcaster have everything available for streaming. Well, as long as it's produced by the broadcaster at least. When it's produced by external studios things can get a bit complicated, but it seems like they've achieved agreements with most studios that produce content for the broadcaster the last couple of years. Even content the broadcaster have bought is usually available for at least two weeks, but I imagine it depends on the contract with the rights holder.

And speaking as a Norwegian expat with children, it's great. All hail NRK.

Finland's Yle has a similar thing.

Pretty much the same with SVT in Sweden. They also have a site called ”öppet arkiv” (open archive) claiming to be one of the world’s largest TV archives.

Do you think the licence fee changes will affect this?

What argument was used for forcing a copying decision upon the copyright holders?

"Fuck you, pay me?"

I think it was something along the lines of unfair business practices due to public broadcasters being able to use taxpayer money...

Tbh that is one of the worst used of tax payers money in Germany. I wish I could opt out

What was in the catalog ? Media produced by public broadcasters ?

yes. They didnt for example had the rights to upload some sport broadcasts which they were only allowed to show on tv.

Like it was already mentioned, this was about unfair business advantage, not about the actual copyright.

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