Film Services Unit

Further promoting tools to improve access to EU works online, including the creation of ready-to-offer catalogues of European films in order to give Video-on-Demand (VoD) services a well curated catalogue of films from different producers, the development of licensing hubs to facilitate the licensing of works in countries where they have not been released in cinemas or where there is no national distributor; and a larger use of standard identifiers of works.The use of common identifiers will help find rights holders more easily and facilitate licensing; Promoting wider access to EU works, and address linguistic barriers through more ef ...[+++]ficient funding subtitling and dubbing (including an online repository); investing in a European aggregator so that people can find more easily a legal offering of films online; promoting the use of data and automated tools for content recommendation, in view of developing and enlarging audiences for European works; working with film industry to promote the discoverability of European films and exploring joint promotion strategies for European co-productions; and funding in 2017 catalogues of European films for educational purposes to present the diversity and quality of European films to young audiences. Exploring new business models, starting with the EU animation sector by discussing how animation films and television animation can travel even better and discussing how the sector can scale up.

This includes working with industry to streamline licensing practices and industry agreements for more sustained use and wider availability of European works; investing in online tools for the legal digital distribution of European works in countries where they have not been released in cinemas or where there is no national distributor; supporting a catalogue of European films to give VOD services a well curated catalogue of films from different producers; and promoting interoperable standard identifiers for seamless and reliable i ...[+++]dentification of works. Promote wider access to EU works, and address linguistic barriers through more efficient funding subtitling and dubbing (including an online repository); investing in a European aggregator so that people can find more easily a legal offering of films online; promoting the use of data and automated tools for content recommendation, in view of developing and enlarging audiences for European works; working with film industry to promote the discoverability of European films and exploring joint promotion strategies for European co-productions; and creating and funding in 2017 a catalogue of European films for educational purposes to present the diversity and quality of European films to young audiences. Exploring new business models, starting with the EU animation sector by discussing how animation films and television animation can travel even better and discussing how the sector can scale up.

1. Encourages the European film industry to pursue the development of innovative services, new business models and distribution channels to improve the cross-border availability of European films in the Union and, beyond that, to allow viewers across the Union to have access to an ever greater range of films across a growing number of platforms; suggests in this regard that the European film industry draw lessons from best commercial practises outside the EU;

1. Encourages the European film industry to pursue the development of innovative services, new business models and distribution channels to improve the cross-border availability of European films in the Union and, beyond that, to allow viewers across the Union to have access to an ever greater range of films across a growing number of platforms; suggests in this regard that the European film industry draw lessons from best commercial practises outside the EU;