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- Title
AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ REKABET KURALLARI KARŞISINDA DVD BÖLGE KODU KORUMASI UYGULAMASI: TEKNİK, EKONOMİK VE HUKUKİ BİR DEĞERLENDİRME.
- Authors
ÖZKAN, Ahmet Fatih
- Abstract
Nothing has impacted the home entertainment in 21st century quite like DVDs, by leaving behind the older media formats like Betamax, VHS, VCD and reaching tremendous amounts of worldwide sales. However, one reason behind the success of DVDs, inter alia, comes from its unique system called "region code protection". As a consequence of this protection, DVDs shall only be played in a player that complies with their region code and does not allow access to their content when attempted to be played in players having a different region code. Developed by Hollywood based film studios and undertaken to be adopted by DVD player manufacturers through their license agreements, the world is divided into six major regions, in a way that lacks any geographical justification. Price discrimination, product differentiation and copyright comprise the economical grounds of region protection, with whose help the film studios contend that the cinemas are able to carry on their business, the theatrical exhibition of a film which has not yet been released in cinemas across that country is able to be prevented from imported DVDs and compliance with classification and age restriction standards is perfectly achieved. Although nothing has yet been proven before a competition authority or a court; region code protection amounts to the legal issues like market, territory and customer sharing, restriction of free trade, hindering of parallel import and unfair competition.
- Subjects
HOME entertainment industry; DVD-Video discs; VHS (Video format); VIDEO CDs; FREE trade; ECONOMIC competition
- Publication
Competition Journal / Rekabet Dergisi, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1302-552X
- Publication type
Article