Hollywood Studios, Sky Get EU Complaint Over Pay-TV Deals

European regulators sent an antitrust complaint to six Hollywood studios, including 20th Century Fox, as well as Sky Plc, over concerns that movie-licensing deals restrict access to pay-TV around the continent.

Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Brothers unit, Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal Media, Sony Pictures and Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures will also get a so-called statement of objections, the European Commission said. The decision focusses on contractual restrictions preventing consumers outside the British Isles from watching Sky pay-TV.