Netflix should be commended for respecting France’s extensive streaming regulation, the President of Lupin producer Gaumont Television France said today at Conecta Fiction.
During an on-stage interview, Degeorges gave an appraisal of how the regulations had changed the market, and said that Netflix’s response had been a mature one. The streamer and others had done “everything they could to avoid it, but they respected it.”
The laws, which dictate that streamers must invest 20-25% of their local revenues in French TV and film productions and gives production houses more back-end rights, were brought it four years ago during the global pandemic.
Global streamers openly disagree with levies and quotas, and are taking legal action in countries such as Belgium to block new local laws, but Degeorges said Netflix, in particular, had played by the rules in France.
Watch on Deadline
“If France,
...
Keep reading this article on DEADLINE.
