One of the heavily negotiated issues between the US and the EU, during the Uruguay Round of the WTO, was the "cultural exception" for "European films". The EU insisted that the concentration of film production in the US combined with globalisation meant that the EU would otherwise be subsumed by...

Using a home market model of international trade in media products, this paper reports an empirical study that relates trends in theater box-office market shares to consumer spending on movies in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the U.K since the 1950s. We find a significantly...

Copyright is extremely important in the film and television sector. It is the legal basis for financial compensation for all creative work that goes into audiovisual productions and therefore for claims for remuneration for such contributions. Most claims continue after the death of the holders...

The Lux Film Prize promotes the distribution of its three fi nalist fi lms by subtitling each of them in the EU's 24 offi cial languages and by producing a digital cinema package per fi lm for each country. It has also given rise to the Lux Film Days, which off er an indelible cultural experience.