Why Disney not available in Poland despite being in cable?

Beyo wrote:

Apple is very close with Disney (Disney CEO is in Apple's board ) so maybe contacting Apple could help but dont know email adress to write to 😟

Send Apple your feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

Beyo wrote:

So if Disney is present in my country and obviously has rights to distribute its own content

That is not a valid assumption. Copyright law is absurdly complicated and thanks to DRM copyrights are now specific to a service, network, and even device. That is why they have to roll it out to specific countries one at a time. It is very slow and time consuming to work out all the details and approvals. Also you can not assume that because Disney is broad casting something that they own the rights to it. Even that is usually MUCH more complicated than you would think.

Yes and as I just explained that has NOTHING to do with providing the content on ATV. Thanks to DRM the copyrights are specific to the service and even the device. So they have to come to a whole other set of legal agreements to play content on ATV. And would have to again to play on Roku, and again on ATV.

One thing missing from this conversation is the Cable company. Cable (and satellite) companies have exclusive agreements with content providers, often subject to geographic limitations. It very well could be the case that the cable company does not yet allow participation for those channels. I've found this to be true for several of AppleTV's offering.

And yes, as has already been discussed, Disney does not always fully own the right to the content it broadcasts, including content containing its brand. It is WAY more complex than that, even more so when international boarders are crossed.

Beyo wrote:

It might be true for Netflix that broadcast content from many owners, but not for Disney.

As already explained that is an incorrect assumption that Disney owns all the content it broadcasts. All those individual shows are owned/controlled by studio, or producers, etc. Even Disney movies are owned by separate sub corporations that have to work out legal agreements with the Disney broadcasting corp. If you really want to continue this debate feel free to contact a copyright attorney and they can explain in detail how cumbersome this is. And then as mentioned they have to negotiate new terms for each service, and or device.

Beyo wrote:

who should pay whom for being present on ATV - Content owner to Apple or Apple to content owner.

This is also wrong. There is no money from them to Apple or the other way around. You pay money to your cable provider to subscribe to Disney Channel content, and they give you access to that content (where it is allowed) on ATV for having a subscription. The only money is from you to the cable provider to Disney.