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In Danish political drama Borgen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen plays a fearless journalist holding power to account. In real life, she’s been calling out government plans to tax streamers and suggesting tax incentives.
The actress has joined a chorus of voices from the Danish production and creative communities condemning Denmark’s proposed Cultural Contribution Act. The legislation includes the demand streamers such as Netflix, HBO Max and Viaplay pay 6% of their local revenues to support local production and public broadcaster DR.
Hjort Sørensen told local Berlingske podcast Østergaard’s Salon that rather than supporting the local production sector, it would undermine the foundations on which it is build and scare away streamers.
“It’s kind of bizarre to me that you don’t try to embrace market forces that would really benefit Danish culture,” she said.
“If the services are charged an extra payment, then it may be that they either pass it on to the consumers, and then the subscription prices rise. They can also choose to withdraw from Danish production, and then there will simply be no more production.”
Hjort Sørensen, who reprised her role as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in Borgen this year for Netflix, said streaming services had “wildly” grown the Danish production market in the past decade and making it harder for them to invest would be unwise. “There have also been more and more varied series for the Danes, and our level of competence has also raised — for example, when we have made sci-fi, which we have never made before. It will be a huge loss if they disappear.”
The legislation was first unveiled in May under the previous government, but there are hopes the new one, which will be led by the Social Democrats after
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