Overview
- Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer warned that US streaming platforms risk creating “de facto American media monopolies” and invited their representatives to the Chancellery for talks.
- He renewed his proposal for a 10 percent digital levy on major online platforms, a measure currently only under review under the coalition agreement.
- He put forward plans to require foreign streaming services operating in Germany to reinvest part of their local revenues into German film productions under European law.
- The federal government will allocate over €100 million to film funding this year and has raised incentive funding to 30 percent of production volume.
- Coalition partners remain split on binding reforms, limiting the government’s commitment to evaluating a platform levy rather than immediate implementation.