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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 for Netflix I know that they license movies/tv shows produced in my country and they actively recommend it to me.

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But the size of EU member states varies drastically. Germany is home to 83,000,000 people, Malta just over 440,000.

Is the EU suggesting that Malta's population should only be able to stream content 2x the volume of its domestic content output? And that's assuming the likes of Netflix was able to hoover up all of that domestic output which seems untenable.

Yes, and my guess is that Malta will implement the law differently from what the EU proposes.

[Edited to fix typo.]

For reference, IMDB shows 297 movies from Malta, and Netflix' catalogue in Malta offers 716 movies.

So even assuming the current catalogue is completely devoid of Maltese movies, there is still some margin available to fulfil the strictest requirements. Although I think the actual requirements is to include 30% movies from the EU.

I don't think your interpretation of the requirements is correct. From upthread:

> 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%)

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

Or Toronto, aka "NYC on your favorite TV show"

LA is the more frequent stand-in for NYC on TV (e.g., CSI NY, Brooklyn 99, etc.). Humorously enough, Toronto frequently fills in for LA on lower-budget TV productions (e.g., Supergirl, anything on SyFy).

What fills in for Toronto?

Seattle

NYC and LA mostly, not really centralized as much as concentrated

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