EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services

Post by FanaHOVA » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 7:51 PM UTC

munk-a wrote: post #200

wukerplank wrote: post #49

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> 30% of movies in Indiana need to be created in Indiana Seems like the media production is pretty centralized in the US. It's hard to compare with Europe, where most nations have different languages, their own TV stations (producing their own content) and their own funds to support productions of movies. It would be a shame if these biotopes of media production would get dried out because of US monopolies. At least…

Also * cough * a good chunk of those US shows/movies are made up here in Vancouver anyways.

Post by noobermin » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

phyller wrote: post #104

gonvaled wrote: post #63

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> Imagine if every state in the US did this, what Netflix would look like. 30% of movies in Indiana need to be created in Indiana. Netflix would suck, ha. Europe is much more culturally diverse than the US. This is what this regulation is about.

The US is incredibly culturally diverse, it's a nation of immigrants from all over the world. It's just not delineated by state. There are geographic pockets of one culture or another, but frequently a single geographical area has many different cultures in it, so it isn't as easy to draw a line around your culture and make laws to protect it. A culture lives and dies on its own efforts and merits.

Post by joejerryronnie » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

phyller wrote: post #7

> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%) 30% for each country seems really high to me. As usual for regulation, there will likely be high unintended consequences. While in the US and elsewhere…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

Longhanks wrote: post #232

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Perhaps a local service other than Netflix can step up then. It sounds like you are defending Netflix in order for them to continue to offer an inferior product outside of the US.

So to get the same as with Netflix today I now have to subscribe to 50+ services?

Post by mrweasel » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #143

phyller wrote: post #7

> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%) 30% for each country seems really high to me. As usual for regulation, there will likely be high unintended consequences. While in the US and elsewhere…

I was wondering if this could be applied to music streaming services in the future. Forcing Spotify or Apple Music to make at least 30% of their content locally produced music seems... Exceedingly high.