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Title: Australia Introduces 'Landmark' Streaming Content Quotas

Link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/1...

Speaking of Australia, its government has introduced content quotas on global
streamers. From a report: The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the
other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to
spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure -- or 7.5% of their revenues -
- on local originals, whether they are dramas, children's shows, docs, or
arts and educational programs. Following the announcement, the legislation
will be introduced into the Australian parliament. Australia's Labor
government has long planned to being in the quotas as part of its Revive
cultural policy, but months and months of delays had left the local industry
wondering how committed their political leaders were to the plan. Global
streamers have broadly rejected the necessity of quotas, claiming their local
investment in content and jobs offsets them.

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