A funding design meant to replace the declining 5% BDU levy with foreign streaming money has been withdrawn under trade pressure. The CRTC’s May package must be redrawn, with implications for the AVMSD review and Korea’s levy debate

캐나다, 해외 스트리머 콘텐츠 기본 부담금 폐기…연 6억 캐나다달러 정부 재원으로 대체
캐나다 정부., 해외 스트리밍 사업자의 기본 부담금(base contribution)을 폐기하고 국고로 대체하겠다고 법원에 통보. 코드커팅으로 줄어든 케이블 사업자 기여금을 해외 스트리머로 대체하려던 설계가, 국내 사업자 부담은 낮추고 해외 사업자 부담은 올리는 비대칭 탓에 USMCA 위반 주장과 섹션 301 조사 법안의 표적이. 5월 21일 결정은 두 달 만에 철회 수순
K엔터테크허브 (K-EnterTech Hub)Jung Han

Canada will scrap the base content contribution imposed on foreign streaming services including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+, and replace the money with government spending. In a July 17 letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, Michael Morris, senior general counsel for litigation at Canada’s Department of Justice, informed the court that the government intends to eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding in its place. The rate increase alone does not explain how it got here.

Canada’s content funding has run for almost two decades on cable, satellite and IPTV distributors paying at least 5% of broadcasting revenue into production funds, and that money has been shrinking since 2013-14 as subscribers cut the cord. Moving the gap onto foreign streamers was the practical purpose of the Online Streaming Act. When the CRTC’s May package eased obligations on smaller domestic players through thresholds and allocation flexibility while tripling the burden on foreign ones, the file stopped being cultural policy and became trade policy.