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Tired of facing the same rights issues with broadcasters, a newly formed union called the European Coordination of Audiovisual Distributors (ecad) is taking a stand. 'Each European distributor fights roughly the same fights and we want to preserve our companies' place in the market,' says Guy Knafo, gm of Paris-based distrib 10 Francs. 'The channels want more and more programming and we agree to sell more and more, but we need the rights to be valorized and evaluated.'

June 1, 2006

Tired of facing the same rights issues with broadcasters, a newly formed union called the European Coordination of Audiovisual Distributors (ecad) is taking a stand. 'Each European distributor fights roughly the same fights and we want to preserve our companies' place in the market,' says Guy Knafo, gm of Paris-based distrib 10 Francs. 'The channels want more and more programming and we agree to sell more and more, but we need the rights to be valorized and evaluated.'