Instead of welcoming this new medium as a supplementary source of income for productions already shown in cinemas, for productions which had not been a commercial success and for childrens' movies, for example, many producers were opposed to the new, medium and tried unsuccessflly to resist it by refusing licences. They saw television and video as a threat to film production instead of as an important new outlet. | green paper on copyright and the challenge of technology, com(88) 172 final, brussels, 7. june 1988