France's CSA broadcasting authority said today it wants to target
video-sharing sites like YouTube and Dailymotion to force them to
contribute to financing French culture.
In a
report, the CSA said the sites fall in the same category as
video-on-demand services so would be subject to French cultural
protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their
revenues to help subsidise productions.
"These
platforms... have for years been developing partnerships with
audiovisual publishers and content providers, with which they share
revenues from advertising," the report said.
It
urged the government to carry out a study of the sites' revenues from
professional productions and determine how much they may be required to
pay.
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