Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to ensure that the UK film and television industry maintains the right to contract freely on the basis of territorially exclusive licences during discussions on the Data Single Market proposals between the European Commission and European Parliament.

The UK Government believes that copyright owners should remain able to tailor content to different markets and to license on a territorial basis. While we remain in the EU we are continuing to take an active part in negotiations regarding the DSM ensuring that British views are heard.

We are keen to ensure that the ability of audio-visual producers to license their content territorially does not change when we leave the EU.