Ley de Cinematografía beneficiará a plataforma Televisa-Univision
La semana pasada, Televisa y Univision dieron a conocer una alianza para conformar a la mayor compañía creadora de contenido en habla hispana a nivel global La propuesta para crear una nueva Ley de Cinematografía, del senador de Morena Ricardo Monreal, tendrá como su mayor beneficiaria a Televisa, particularmente tras la fusión de su área […]
Are Consumers Getting the Short Stick on Data Privacy?
On a Monday, there is a data leak affecting half a billion Facebook accounts, by Tuesday a bot has scraped 500 million LinkedIn accounts. On Wednesday, Stanford University announces a hack that exposed thousands of social security numbers and financial details. Then Thursday, the world’s largest aviation IT company announces 90 percent of passenger data may have been accessed in a cyber-attack. And […]
Quiere Congreso control de plataformas digitales
Propuestas como imponer una cuota de contenido nacional en el streaming, el Padrón Nacional de Usuarios Móviles (Panaut) y otras iniciativas presentadas en el Congreso muestran una tendencia a querer controlar el entorno digital, advirtió Adriana Labardini, ex comisionada del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT). La creación de una nueva Ley de Cinematografía que impondría […]
Cuota de cine mexicano a Netflix, Amazon y HBO afectará al consumidor
La Ley Federal de Cinematografía y el Audiovisual, pretende que plataformas digitales como Netflix, Amazon, HBO o Blim tengan como obligación ofrecer el 30% de producción nacional, algo que perjudicará directamente a los consumidores mexicanos. “La nueva ley impone una cuota desproporcionada de contenidos nacionales en todas las plataformas digitales que operan en México, similar […]
A digital tax would hurt consumers
The EU has long considered levying a tax of between two and six percent on the local revenues of platform giants. The prospect of trade talks with the US has brought this topic back into the spotlight. However, an EU-wide digital tax would limit potential … As it stands right now, the European Commission is […]
We don’t need content quotas
Streaming platforms and consumers should make their own decisions… A number of countries and regions are already applying entertainment content quotas. This means that a certain percentage of audiovisual content on broadcasting channels needs to be local. This rule already exists in France, for radio broadcasters. For private radio stations, there are rules on the […]
The fallacy of content quotas
I’ve become somewhat of a streaming junkie during this pandemic, following up on the criticism that my pop-culture knowledge is sub-optimal. Now subscribed to three services at once, I watch both popular movies and TV shows from the U.S. and niche local productions buried in the dark corners of Netflix. On these platforms, content curation […]
Facebook, Australia and the pitfalls of online regulation
“Facebook has re-friended Australia.” Those were the words of Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to a gaggle of reporters in Canberra this week, in an ever-so-slightly smug declaration of victory in the regulatory battle between his government and the embattled social media giant. His statement came after Facebook, having kicked up an almighty storm – and […]
Dowden’s latest task? Regulating the internet. Here’s what Australia can teach us about that challenge.
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden finds himself burdened with an almighty task: regulating the internet. His new ‘Digital Markets Unit’, set to form part of the existing Competitions and Markets Authority, will be the quango in charge of regulating the social media giants. Dowden, like the rest of us, is now trying to discern what can […]
Knee-jerk reactions are no way to regulate big tech
Regulation enthusiasts around the world have set their sights on big tech. In the UK, the outlet for this newfound appetite to rein in Silicon Valley is a brand new quango called the Digital Markets Unit [DMU], set to form part of the existing Competition and Markets Authority [CMA]. Specifics about the DMU’s remit are hard to […]
The impending war with big tech
The last few weeks have seen a substantial ramping up of rhetoric from Westminster towards big tech. Facebook’s dramatic show of power against – and subsequent capitulation to – the Australian government over its new law obliging it to pay news outlets to host their content made for gripping viewing, and it has since become clear that […]
Will new EU digital regulations lead us to innovation or stagnation?
A recent event organised by the Consumer Choice Center looked at the role the Digital Services and Markets Acts will play in shaping Europe’s digital innovation future. In December 2020, the European Commission presented the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA). Both are aimed at regulating digital platforms, however, it remains unclear […]
