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MPA Europe Chief Stan McCoy Talks Hollywood’s Concerns as New EU Parliament Takes Charge
MPA Europe chief Stan McCoy discusses Hollywood's chief concerns as the new EU parliament takes charge
Following recent European Union elections held in June that saw far-right parties made significant gains, Hollywood is making moves to ensure that the new EU regime doesn’t draft new legislation that would be detrimental for studios and streamers. “We are at a moment when [EU] policies are not set in stone yet,” said Stan McCoy, who is the Motion Picture Assn.’s chief for Europe, speaking at the Venice Film Festival. “You don’t want to create a world where you wind up facilitating people who sign up for a streaming service, watch everything they want for two weeks, and then cancel, saying: ‘I didn’t like it,’ and get all their money back,” said McCoy.
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