http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/opinion/the-fcc-and-tv-producers.html 2016-09-23 20:00:32 The F.C.C. and TV Producers The TV producer Martha De Laurentiis writes that the F.C.C. cannot be allowed to override licensing agreements. === To the Editor: “ But in fact virtually the entire creative community — including actors, filmmakers, screenwriters and production crews all over the country — rejects the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to take over copyright licensing and dictate the terms on which we distribute and get paid for our work. Indeed, one day before your editorial appeared, more than a dozen major music, film and arts organizations, guilds and unions issued a We support competition in the set-top box market, but cannot agree to allow a government agency that has no expertise in the complex economics of the modern film and TV ecosystem to override licensing agreements, diminishing the value of our work. The creative industries already face challenges because of rampant theft of their work. As a TV producer who saw a popular, treasured show canceled partly because of But now, instead of considering ways to reduce theft, the federal government appears poised to further devalue our work. That’s unacceptable. The F.C.C. must fix this now. MARTHA DE LAURENTIIS Los Angeles The writer is a movie and TV producer whose work most recently included three seasons of “Hannibal” for NBC.