Hollywood About To Pay The Price For Adoring Europe Hollywood adores everyone in Europe because they all live in tiny countries so, unlike the US, they have to know where every other country is ... and they have to speak multiple languages because no one outside their respective countries wants to Flemish or Walloon. We'll see how the tune changes since the EU juggernaut in Brussels is now investigating how television rights for movies are negotiated. This also means they will want a piece of the pie, you can be sure. Since so many stars get more money based on international rights, this will impact their bottom line ... and they can't tell the rest of America what to do unless they have a lot of money in order to be exempt from the requirements they want to heap on everyone else ... You see, the EU says it is concerned about competition. What that means is that they're concerned about establishing a preference for big EU countries ... which is why Polish farmers joining the EU have been told their milk is not 'good enough' to be sold in other countries while German farmers get such a large subsidy they can produce milk in Germany and ship it to Poland and sell it cheaper than local Poles can produce it and sell it. See how this works? 'Competition' means they want to insure they a local broadcaster or media company actually has an advantage. That may not make sense to you and me ... it would sound like the absence of competition, but of course we're not European. Article Here