Netflix Lodges Appeal to France’s Council of State Over Windowing Rules: ‘Taking a Stand Against an Imbalanced and Unfair System’

The platform contests the 15-month deadline imposed on it in France under an agreement on the chronology of the media that it has not signed.

LETTER OF MEDIA. The manager of the streaming attack before the Conseil d'État the chronology of the media, claiming the right to broadcast the French films he finances, after twelve months instead of fifteen.

The American giant announced on Friday 11 April that he had filed an appeal to the Conseil d'Etat to challenge the chronology of the media, which regulates the deadlines from which a work can be broadcast after its release in the French theatres which he considers unfair.

Netflix Lodges Appeal to France’s Council of State Over Windowing Rules: ‘Taking a Stand Against an Imbalanced and Unfair System’

Netflix has lodged an appeal to France’s Council of State to call out the windowing rules which force the streamer to wait 15 months to access newly released films. Such rules, which have largely been responsible for the absence of Netflix at the Cannes Film Festival, apply to all pay and free TV channels and subscription-based services. Simply put, their level of investment in theatrical movies determines their access to films after their rel…

EXCLUSIVE - The American giant did not find any common ground with the professional film organizations to broadcast the films that he finances twelve months after their release.

The streaming giant, who would like to broadcast the films earlier after their release, tries to appeal to the high court. Netflix did not sign the agreement on the chronology of the media, which, at the beginning of February, renewed that of 2022 for three years. Today, it was before the Council of State that the American platform contests the rules, as reported Le Figaro. Netflix was nevertheless the first American platform to make an agreemen…