“We’re licensing rather than owning rights, and we have around about 45 deals now with third party distributors,” explains Edward Humphrey, director of digital for the British Film Institute, and a keynote speaker at this year’s TV Connect. “If you wanted to launch a video on demand service that was commercial, you’d probably only need the six studios plus another ten distributors and you could have a pretty comprehensive service.”
via BFI at TV Connect: using OTT to tell the history of cinema | IP&TV News.