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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?
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?
The Canadian government has "always" had a film-making pool that all cable television companies are required to put a percentage of their revenue into, which is then doled out to make Canadian movies and television shows (most of which nobody actually watches, of course.) The cable companies are also required to show a certain percentage of Canadian television shows, and radio stations must play a certain percentage of Canadian music.
None of this currently applies to outfits like Netflix, and the incumbent cable companies and movie and television producers are pushing for them to also have to put money into their fund. I suspect it won't be long before an attempt is made to actually do it -- it gets brought up regularly.
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And what exactly is stopping French/German/Other EU companies from making their own national "Netflix" showing 100% local content? What do you mean no one wants to fucking pay for it? Surely there must be someone stupid enough to pay again for what they get through their local service anyway.
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You keep using that word, it does not mean what you think it does. In this case, it's actually the total opposite.
1) People can and do vote with their wallets. Nobody HAS to order Netflix. In any country.
2) If the stuff french filmmakers produce is not wanted by consumers, well that's too damn bad. Adapt or die.
Since the studios insist the world is divided into regions and are fighting tooth and nail to prevent a free global market when it comes to content it is only fair they are forced to specially cater for those markets... nes't pa?
DONE! "...reserve at least 20per cent share..."
Feel free to get off your asses and fill that reserved-but-currently-empty space with content.
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-- Netflix
What would prevent Amazon or Netflix from just approaching some YouTubers in these countries, offering them 100 euro for the worst and most crappy movies ever produced in French, German and all the other European languages, and putting these on their platform as the 'required local content quota fillers'. Hey, if 20% has to be European, nobody ever said it had to be the best European movies and shows... I would be more than willing to produce Dutch content for Netflix, consisting of hourlong diatribes against ridiculous European regulations designed to protect crappy content from competition. Hell, I'd probably do it for free. My German is just good enough to even produce a rant in German, which could potentially be submitted under comedy, considering my mediocre german vocabulary and pronunciation skills.
Excellent idea. In fact the world should ban US content, i.e. exclude the USA from 96% of the worlds population.
And while you are at it, keep your military, your drones, your CIA meddling , your economic bullying and your other "US interests" at home too.
The EU is already a BIGGER economy than the USA, China is only a few years away from being the 2nd biggest economy.
Peak USA was the 1950s-1970s since then it has stagnated while the rest of the world has grown.
Turns out the USA needs the rest of the world more than the rest of the world needs the USA.
For those of you who don't live in the UK, please be aware, 99% of everything in the Daily Mail is lies. This rises to 99.9% for stories about "Europe". Be ye warned.
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Depends on which of the 3 "first computer" you want to count. Two of which were by people in the UK.
On the other hand, making personal computers available to the masses, that was definitely from the US.
Of course, getting into a dick waving contest over who made what has pretty much nothing to do with the topic, which in case you've forgotten in your excitement to pull your dick out and start waving it around, is non-european media providers being forced provide and even pay for specific language programming.
Don't. Give. Them. Ideas.
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Add some gratuitously naked French chicks, and you've made a mainstream French film.
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Re:How about content providers pull out of Europa
And Io, Ganymede, and Callisto while they are at it!