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Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the 30%-locally-sourced dept.

chromas writes:

From Variety:

Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% of their on-demand catalogs to local content are set to become enshrined in law soon.

Roberto Viola, head of the European Commission department that regulates communications networks, content and technology, said the new rules, which will also demand visibility and prominence of European product on streamers, are on track to be approved in December.

"We just need the final vote, but it's a mere formality," he told Variety at the Venice Film Festival.

Netflix, Amazon and other streamers will be required to fund TV series and films produced in Europe by commissioning content, acquiring it or paying into national film funds through a small surcharge added to their subscription fee, something which is already happening in Germany. Netflix tried unsuccessfully to fight the German surcharge in court.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:02PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:02PM (#730299)

    So 30% of amazon's content has to come from my home town? Or my subdivision?

    Isn't it unrealistic for them to expect some small part of the world's population to provide 30% of the content? And expect the same from every small percentage of the world's population?

    Is this just another way to legally mandate balkanization? If 'local' content can't expand to make 30% they'll have to reduce non-local content - so the same stuff can't be available everywhere...

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  • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:15PM (3 children)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:15PM (#730312) Journal

    Isn't it unrealistic for them to expect some small part of the world's population to provide 30% of the content?

    By your logic most content should come from China and India... and not New York or Hollywood.

    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)

      by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:23PM (#730317) Journal

      By your logic most content should come from China and India

      How well would musicals made in Mumbai [wikipedia.org] survive the dubbing process?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @03:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @03:23AM (#730604)

        Nothing survives any dubbing process.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday September 04 2018, @09:22PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday September 04 2018, @09:22PM (#730475)

      Yeah, there's no possible way that India and China could have developed the 2nd [wikipedia.org] and 3rd [wikipedia.org] largest film industry cities in the world.

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