I think the story behind was roughly this: Swedish Channel 4 didn't
even have interruptions in programs for commmercials earlier, there
were only commmercials in between programs. The channnel's agreement
with the government regarding license to broadcast involved such
matters. Then Channel 4 started to interrupt movies with news. And on
both sides of the news they put in ads. In that way they could claim
that they did not really interrupt movies in order to show ads, only
news. They had forgotten to put anything about this in their
contracts until the two directors started their lawsuit a few years
ago. Now it is explicit in the contracts that the copyright holder
not only sells the right to show the film a certain amount of times
but also agrees that it may be interrupted.
/Karl-Erik
>. But the two directors were lucky,
>since they had never signed the same contract as most other
>moviemakers through there companies do. So they still had the right
>to decide how their works could be used.
>
>/Karl-Erik
>
>I'm not sure where luck was involved in their decisions as to what
>contracts they would sign. Perhaps you mean that they were fortunate to
>find people to fund their projects who didn't insist upon their signing
>such a contract.
>
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