The 15% “TAX” headline is COMPLETE LIE. A misrepresentation - READ THE ARTICLE. It is NOT a TAX but a requirement that streamers spend 15% of Canadian revenue to PURCHASE or CREATE CANADIAN CONTENT. This is a Canadian content law. NOT A TAX.
The 15% “TAX” headline is COMPLETE LIE. A misrepresentation - READ THE ARTICLE. It is NOT a TAX but a requirement that streamers spend 15% of Canadian revenue to PURCHASE or CREATE CANADIAN CONTENT. This is a Canadian content law. NOT A TAX.
Rest of the world needs to do this too.
One thing I like is that the revenue from these taxes go explicitly to the threatened industries. So the more that Canadians stream US works, the more money there is for Canadian tv, movies and radio to compete. Too often, income like this is directed into a general revenue stream, leaving the threatened industries with the same or even less resources to compete with.
Not really. France did the same and we were flooded with the lowest tier crap ever because of that law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law
There is no solution to that problem though.
I’d genuinely take the lowest tier crap if it meant Canada’s media landscape wasn’t overwhelmed with American propaganda
Canada has had good local content laws for a few decades now. Because of the local content law in radio and television, we got Celion Dion and Bieber and Drake. Prior to that all the music was American or British. We have a lot of local shows now. It’s always cheaper for broadcasters/streamers to buy a license than ask someone to make/produce shows and buy them. This forces them to source locally and give local talent a chance.
I can’t comment on Celine Dion (not my kind of music at all, I literally know only one song and I bet you know which one), but Bieber took like a decade to start putting out music that didn’t actively make people want to kill themselves and Drake is both a pedophile and more importantly, not really that good. Kendrick dissed him and he tried to sue the label instead of dissing him back. Not necessarily great examples IMO, even if numerically successful. I mean the latter two because, again, the first is just not my genre whatsoever.
Canada has some actually great TV shows though. Trailer Park Boys, Letterkenny come to mind first. I’ve heard a lot of good about Schitt’s creek but haven’t seen it yet.
Is this a selling point or…?
We also got Rush, Reboot, and Kim’s Convenience?
due south, corner gas, and my niece’s (who trains horses) current favorite, heartland (which at 19 years and still running, is literally older than she is)
Heartland has been on for 19 years??? Thats wild!
I’ve been watching 22 mins for most of my adult life
also, “The Great White North” on SCTV eh?
…and a 25% tarrif like our steel and aluminum.
Reciprocity.
Yes, but no. Maybe we shouldn’t have streaming cartels at all. Just focusing on enabling content creators wherever they may be, for the sake of the content. You’d be hard pressed to find less deserving less capable stewards of content, than the ones currently stewarding it.
Honestly I wouldn’t care if content I make was shown for free to everyone in the world. As long as I had housing/health/food security and self determination. As would most creative people.