United States of America: Published Draft of FCC Proposed Rulemaking on Fostering Independent and Diverse Sources of Video Programming

On 17 April 2024, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted a draft of the proposed rule for Fostering Independent and Diverse Sources of Video Programming. The proposed rule is targeted at platform intermediaries of user-generated content and streaming service providers and considers prohibiting unconditional most favoured nation (MFN) provisions and unreasonable alternative distribution method (ADM) provisions in carriage agreements. The FCC will commence a comment period 30 days after the publication of the rule in the Federal Register.