XPost: soc.culture.russian, soc.culture.german, soc.culture.europe
XPost: soc.culture.french
From: u@u.u

"Kvebekski"  wrote in message
news:uK93f.54179$0Y5.1130656@weber.videotron.net...
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> "George"  wrote in message
> news:XM73f.240571$084.177537@attbi_s22...
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>> "Former King of Pangea"  wrote in message
>> news:cs73f.3057$Hm3.1569@fe09.lga...
>> > The US should file a complaint with the WTO on these illegal subsidies.
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>> > OK. The Europeans can't make competitive films. That's not the USA's
>> > fault. If they can't compete, they should go extinct. I guess the main
>> > reason complaints have not been filed is because European movies suck
>> > so
>> > bad, Hollywood does not see them as a threat. Anyway, European movies
>> > can't make it in the US unless a US distributor agrees to bankroll the
>> > films.
>> > "More subsidy
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>> > One way forward, suggested actor Paul McGann, is to follow France's
>> > lead
>> > and increase subsidies for indigenous films.
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>> > In France, a percentage of every cinema ticket sold is channelled back
>> > into home-grown movie-making through its central film agency, the
>> > Centre
>> > National de la Cinematographie (CNC)."
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>> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4325826.stm
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>> Of course, that goes against free trade and an open market.
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> Unless being very simple-minded and uneducated, nobody considers culture
> as
> a plain economical good.

I don't understand you.

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