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Belgium already takes a cut from Netflix and Disney and new income will support local TV production
Cute cat videos, fried chicken clips and viral dances could soon help to finance Belgian TV, with the Flanders government on the verge of passing laws to force TikTok and YouTube to share revenues with local television producers.
“Politically speaking, it is important in audiovisual and media services that there are obligations on companies to invest in local TV content,” the Belgian culture minister, Benjamin Dalle, told the Guardian.
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