The EU changed their copyright directive a few years ago to mandate "best practices" as a condition for online safe harbor; I find that provision to be equivale

The EU changed their copyright directive a few years ago to mandate "best practices" as a condition for online safe harbor; I find that provision to be equivalent to the SMART Act. As for paying more for less in Germany... the problem is that nobody in the TV industry wants to go to sim-ship[0]. Most countries want to have a local-market/local-language TV broadcast and production industry, which is only viable if you let people portion off rights to their work on a country-by-country basis. The subsidy laws you mentioned are part and parcel of the same thing. [0] A game development term that is short for "simultaneous ship"; in which you ship all languages in every territory all on the same day.