Behind the reassuring figures of the Media Outlook 2025, several European producers’ organizations denounce the risk of Europe being transformed into a luxury provider for American platforms. Two years after an initial version, the European Commission has published its Media Industry Outlook 2025, intended to offer a strategic vision of the European media sector – television, streaming, cinema, video games and press – and feed into future public policy. The document, dense and rich in data, aims to paint a picture of a creative and competitive ecosystem. But, for many professionals in the European audiovisual sector, it largely misses the main issue: the continent’s cultural and economic sovereignty, which involves the question of ownership of rights to works. Non-conservation of rights The Commission’s report salutes the vitality of independent production and the diversity of content, stresses digital transformation and the opportunities offered by new immersive technologies. On the face of…
