The New Framework for Audiovisual Production in Spain: Minority or Minoritised Languages?
摘要
LexCAV is a research project about the impact of the Spanish Audiovisual Communication Law 13/2022 on linguistic and cultural diversity. Emerging from a symposium held in 2022 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), LexCAV analyses European communication policies and their various national implementations, offering a quantitative and qualitative assessment of independent audiovisual production in those territories with co-official languages. The particular focus of this chapter is Law 13/2022’s mistreatment of independent producers and its limited approach to gender equality, as well as underlining the law’s insufficient quotas for audiovisual content in minority languages: only 6% of video-on-demand content in co-official languages, with a minimum of 0.6% per language. We also argue that Law 13/2022 incurs a comparative disadvantage between local and global VOD services, in which dominant platforms in the Spanish market (such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video) are not subject to the same obligations as local providers. However, the lack of transparency in the data on percentages of content broadcast in different languages makes it difficult to accurately assess compliance with legal requirements. The chapter concludes that Law 13/2022, although intended to protect minority languages, lacks clarity, applicability and ambition, and does not adequately address the challenges posed by the current globalisation of audiences, thus contributing decisively to perpetuating the minoritisation of non-hegemonic audiovisual cultures.