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Australian Screen Industry Body Demands Global Streamers Pay Content Levy
Australia's producers could become "slaves" to international streamers, a top industry body has warned, as debate over content quotas heats up.
Screen Producers Australia(SPA) made the comment in a statement issued to the National Cultural Policy inquiry hearing today for the government’s upcoming ‘Revive’ plan. However, both left out documentary — one of three genres named by the National Cultural Policy as critical — and the SPA claimed unnamed streamers had since circulated misleading information that docs such as Prime Video’s cricket series The Test and Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles would not be counted as Australian content. It is anticipated that Australian content spend will fall for the 2023-24 accounting period due to the U.S. writers and actors strikes, a delay in a Location Offset expenditure-based scheme and a streamer commissioning slowdown triggered by the uncertainty over regulation.
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