Netflix, Disney+ And Amazon Just Dodged Massive Canadian Streaming Levies That Would Have Cost Billions

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has put a stop to a regulation that would have required U.S. streaming services such as ...

Canadian government tells regulator to back off on charging streamers like Netflix more

Canada's government directed its television and communications regulator to back down from a recent decision to triple ...

STATEMENT FROM FRIENDS OF CANADIAN MEDIA ON RECENT CRTC DECISIONS AND THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN CONTENT

Friends of Canadian Media continues to support the CRTC's implementation of the modernized Broadcasting Act. The Commission's ...
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Spotify and major music DSPs on alert as Canada triples streaming tax to 15%

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission tripled the levy on Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video to 15%.

Canadian regulator triples US streamers’ financial contributions to Canadian content

Canada's federal broadcast regulator is requiring large online streaming services to contribute 15% of their Canadian ...

Question of the day: Should streaming services fund Canadian content?

The CRTC dropped a major ruling last week: major streaming services must now contribute 15 per cent of their Canadian ...

Opinion: Stop force-feeding Canadians’ viewing choices

To promote Canadian content, Ottawa has been hell-bent on applying outdated regulations to innovative platforms like Netflix, ...

Do you pay more when streaming services have to subsidize Canadian content? Not necessarily, advocates say

One Canadian group says data shows that similar contribution rules in European jurisdictions have not resulted in ...
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CRTC triples streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content

OTTAWA — Large TV streaming services like Netflix must contribute 15 per cent of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content, the federal broadcast regulator said Thursday.