The agreement that forms the basis of the collaboration between the VRT and Streamz, the new Flemish streaming service, has not been discussed with the audiovisual production sector and is moreover non-transparent and illegal. That says Flemish MP Katia Segers (SP.A) Thursday. She mentions “a clear violation to the letter and spirit of the media decree”.
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In the context of the participation in Streamz, the public broadcaster makes part of its catalog available, while three new series that were made on behalf of the VRT can only be viewed in preview on Streamz. Katia Segers points out that the contracts that the VRT negotiated at the time for the series were drawn up when there was no Streamz yet. The fact that those series are now shown in preview online means that the production houses and actors are now missing out on a lot of income.