| | Legal Protection of Conditional Access Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Accordingly, the scope of the proposed directive covers all services that are supplied on a Conditional Access basis: this includes traditional pay-TV (and radio), video-on-demand, audio-on-demand, electronic publishing and a wide range of on-line services, all of which are offered to the public on a subscription or usage-related basis[12]. |
 | | At the Community level, the corresponding notion is that of "conditional access" enshrined in Directive 95/47 on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals (Article 4)[27]. |
 | | On-line applications could similarly improve access to a wide range of data, provided that the viability of such business is ensured by usage-related tariffs implemented by conditional access (and legal protection thereof): unrestricted access is simply not compatible with the investment required in order to create the database. |
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