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The chapter will look at the arguments France employed in favour of a cultural exception that would exempt cultural products from the scope of international trade agreements and the US counter-arguments for them to be included. It explores how the arrival of digital media has complicated the debate, bringing the most recent WTO negotiations to a standstill.
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Walkley, S. (2018). The Trade and Culture Clash: The Background to the Current Stalemate. In: Cultural Diversity in the French Film Industry. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96923-7_4
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