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Hotel and restaurant owners want regulators to clarify whether broadcasting rights owners can charge royalty fees for proprietary programmes broadcast on free TV channels.
Questions surfaced last month during the Euro 2008 football tournament, for which an affiliate of the entertainment company RS Plc collected fees from hotels and restaurants that showed the matches on their TV sets.
Baramee Ruangkanchanasetr, the secretary-general of the Thai Hotels Association, said the group would ask the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to clarify the matter. ''We [will ask] the NTC next week to set the norms for whether in the future broadcasting rights owners could collect fees on programmes on free TV channels.
''We don't mind rights owners collecting royalty fees from hotels and restaurants for [customers] watching the programmes or for any sorts of commercial purpose,'' he said.
But the association maintains it would be unfair to charge royalty fees to hotels and restaurants that sell food and also have TV sets installed simply to offer additional services to guests.
Pavornwan Koonmongkon, president of the Thai Restaurant Association, said that about 1,000 association members had paid cash fees to RS during the Euro 2008 event. RS charged them 5,000 baht for each big screen and earned an estimated five million baht in fees, below its expectations.
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