Heated $2B Requirements: MPA Livid As Canada Jacks Up Streamers’ Content Revenue Contributions
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In what is shaping up to become a very heated rivalry, the Motion Picture Association didn’t quite use the word socialism today over a Canadian regulatory move, but they got damn close.
The studios and streamers’ trade association did warn that “new rules” and financial contributions determined today by Canada’s Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission […]
Cancon rules for streamers tripled
- Canadian regulator triples US streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content ABC News —
- CRTC says streamers must pay three times as much for Canadian content CTV News —
- Canada triples US streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content Associated Press —
- CRTC issues formal Canadian content rules for streamers, raises programming funding requirement The Globe and Mail —
- Major Studios Slam Canada For Slapping “Discriminatory Investment Obligations” on U.S. Streamers The Hollywood Reporter —