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medici.tv: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

medici.tv is a video streaming service for classical music, opera, ballet and jazz. It offers live events and an on-demand catalogue of recorded concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries and masterclasses. The service launched in 2008 and can be watched in a web browser, on tablets and phones, and on smart TVs, including through Apple TV and Chromecast. Its interface is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian.

The operator is MUSEEC SAS, a French simplified joint-stock company with its registered office in Paris, which trades as medici.tv. Since 2020 the Les Echos-Le Parisien group, part of the French LVMH group, has been a shareholder alongside the founders. No majority owner outside France is named, so the company falls under French and EU jurisdiction. For a European organisation, medici.tv is a consumer streaming service from a French operator. It is not offered as self-hosted or open-source software.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Music Streaming
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to medici.tv

The European alternatives to medici.tv come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with medici.tv

medici.tv is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so medici.tv scores best on data residency.

medici.tv is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs medici.tv together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to medici.tv?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to medici.tv include Acast, ARD Sounds and Ausha. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to medici.tv?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to medici.tv include Castopod. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is medici.tv GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

medici.tv is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes medici.tv an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 12, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Music Streaming

Music Streaming: Music streaming services — listening, playlists, podcasts. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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