Belgium's Constitutional Court has affirmed on March 26 the validity of the country's implementation decree of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), which introduced obligations for video streaming platforms to contribute to the financing of local content. Netflix challenged the decree in court. The Court rejected most of Netflix's criticisms in its appeal to annul the AVMS decree, which included the mandatory contribution system for audiovisual production. The Court also referred pre...

Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a member of the House of Representatives' Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, has introduced the Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act, a legislation designed to "counter Canada’s digital trade barriers targeting American streaming companies and content producers." The bill is a direct reaction to Canada's Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11), enacted in 2023, which put audio and video streaming services under the regulatory powers of the Canadian Radio-televisi...

US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for Chinese company ByteDance to "immediately shut down" its AI-powered video-generation tool Seedance 2.0 and "implement meaningful safeguards to prevent further infringing outputs." The two policy-makers made this request to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in a letter seen by CNBC. They describe Seedance as "the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a ByteDance product to date" due to its ability to generate videos copying existin...