OTT and Cancon: What happens when we tumble down from the top of peak TV?

TORONTO – Over-the-top video providers like Netflix offer many benefits to countries outside the United States, but they are also a threat to film and TV makers, a digital media conference has been told.“If we don't do something about bringing the OTTs into the domestic regulatory sphere, the disparity in treatment between domestic and international services will grow” in countries that have local content or spending rules, warned Stuart Cunningham, a professor of media and communications at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.At the same time, he added, the pressure from local content creators to eliminate those minimum rules in...