Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski are among 592 signatories to a letter calling for the introduction of a levy that would see streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon be forced to re-invest at least 25% of their turnover in European countries back into local independent industry.
This debate is raging across Europe. The European Directive of Audiovisual Media Services (Avms), signed in November 2018, gave EU countries 21 months to introduce national legislation based on its terms, which were to create “a level playing field for emerging audiovisual media” and to “preserve cultural diversity” by making streamers re-invest in European nations.
Now that the deadline has arrived, it is up to individual nations to interpret and introduce those laws.
As Deadline reported on last week in Portugal, one of the first counties to progress the law, local filmmakers are up in arms after the government’s interpretation was seen to be too soft on the streamers.
This debate is raging across Europe. The European Directive of Audiovisual Media Services (Avms), signed in November 2018, gave EU countries 21 months to introduce national legislation based on its terms, which were to create “a level playing field for emerging audiovisual media” and to “preserve cultural diversity” by making streamers re-invest in European nations.
Now that the deadline has arrived, it is up to individual nations to interpret and introduce those laws.
As Deadline reported on last week in Portugal, one of the first counties to progress the law, local filmmakers are up in arms after the government’s interpretation was seen to be too soft on the streamers.
- 10/29/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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