The e-commerce chapters that we're beginning to see in international trade agreements don't differentiate between the nature of the product or the service that's being transmitted and sold electronically, and that's a problem. Cultural goods and services, while they do have an economic value, also have a profoundly important cultural side. The agreements, in taking this broad-brush approach, treat the distribution of travel services and the sale of refrigerators and other goods, and cultural goods and services, in exactly the same way. They don't acknowledge that Netflix is primarily producing, primarily distributing, Hollywood product.
It has a look and a feel.... It may be telling stories from other countries, but they're doing it in an American way of storytelling rather than a form of storytelling that you would see from other parts of the world. To have our own material available electronically to do that, we require strong public policies.