Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk)

jader3rd quotes an articles from The Daily Mail about a new EU proposal to be published next week: Netflix and Amazon could be forced to make French, German and even Estonian films and TV shows by the EU. The US companies could also be hit with taxes to raise funds to support the work of film-makers in Europe. The proposal is thought to be driven by the French, who are particularly fearful of their cinema and TV programmes being eclipsed by English language productions... One draft says the aims is to create 'a more level playing field in the promotion of European works by obliging on-demand services to reserve at least 20 percent share for European works in their catalogues and to ensure adequate prominence of such works'.
French may become the world's most-spoken language by 2050 (due to its popularity among the fast-growing population of Africa). But even so, should U.S.-based companies be facing "regional quotas" for the content they're offering?

Comments

Re:Barrier to entry

[drinkypoo]

It is US bullying and copyright laws which are the problem.

They are problems, but how are they problems here?

You can not take just once program you are forced to take the 1 you want plus another 9 pieces of rubbish or you get nothing.

I fail to see the problem. Nothing is an acceptable return.

This places a financial barrier for other networks around the world.

It's not our fault that people around the world want some of our media so badly that we can drive a hard bargain. Maybe the rest of the world should get its shit together and become as good as we are at making media. The BBC had the most popular television show in the world until 2015, though, and they still make many of the most popular series on television. Why aren't they able to make a similar deal? The UK has the same kind of hard-on for strong IP law that we do here in the USA; in fact, the UK invented it! Remember, the first copyright law was at Alexandria, and it was about the right to copy, not the right to prevent copies. It's the English that turned that upside down, not us here in the US. But you want to blame us? Poppycock, cock.

Foreign media has a LOT to offer, in fact the US takes a LOT of it, americanises it (i.e. ruins it with canned laughter, poor writing,etc) for the local market.

We make our own version for two reasons. First, we don't want to read, sorry. By "we" I don't mean me, but it's still generally true, so I'm saying it. Second, we get control over the content. It doesn't support your media empire. It supports ours.

Media is basically the thing we have going for us in the world, IMO. It keeps the world sucking our teat. It's our best possible PR. It would be daft to change the game plan now.

Re:Same thing in Canada

[Mashiki]

You should really get outside of the big cities. That's the only place where canadian identity is multicultural, the rest of the country doesn't like it. Canada is likely about to experience the same cultural awakening that Europe and it's multicultural idealism is experiencing. One also can't forget that said multicultural idea has allowed ghettos to start appearing here in Canada, something that is new to the Cancuk landscape.

But if you don't think Americans aren't well equipped to understand this, you don't know Americans just like you don't know Canadians outside of the social bubbles in big cities.