Documentaries: a rising market in Brazil

Streaming platforms that already landed in the Brazilian territory might be happy with the opportunity to exploit a huge and rising market. The strategy adopted by most of them was to engage in the production of tailormade content targeted at the local consumers. The result has been the booming of the audiovisual production market in […]

Distribution of Foreign Audiovisual Works in Brazil

The Brazilian Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (“CARF”) – the appellate body within Brazil’s administrative tax system – decided recently that the Contribution for the Intervention in the Economic Domain (“CIDE”) would apply over payments or credits made to non-Brazilian residents related to the distribution of foreign audiovisual works in Brazil. Such precedent is unlawful […]