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2.10 Television licensing requirements

2.10.1 Television licensing requirements would not be affected – a licence being required for the reception of broadcast television services and the viewing of concurrent broadcast streams online (including watching live television broadcasts over the internet). A television licence is not currently required for the use of catch up television services, such as BBC iPlayer, [...]

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2.2 Summary of Proposals

2.2.1 The Executive wishes to form a new joint venture partnership to define and promote a standards based open environment for internet-connected television devices, provisionally known as ‘Project Canvas’. The aim is to make these standards openly available to device manufacturers, ISPs and content providers to drive the development of new set top boxes and [...]

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1 Introduction

1.1 Summary
1.1.1 The Executive has asked the Trust for permission to develop a joint venture proposition that would promote a standards based open environment for internet-connected digital terrestrial and digital satellite television devices (Project Canvas). For consumers this would enable subscription-free access to on-demand television services and other internet-based content, through a new broadband [...]

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