Different legal ans fiscal treatments within Europe makes it difficult a European digital single market for cultural products and services.
Europe strength largely rely on culture,
A, efficient digital single market for culture in Europe requires a common legal framework on Copyright Laws and a common IVA across Europe.
Both are urgent.
Thank you for your short post which highlights major problems. Both VAT and copyright carry heavy national legacies with many exceptions that have accumulated over the years. It is very hard to remove these legacies and have a common European approach because the political costs would be high in the Member States.
Here's a post from Paul Soper on VAT which might interest you.
Did you see this Euractiv article on copyright?
Would you agree with this piece in Les Echos which argues that the "cultural exception" in France hinders TV production by seeking to protect it? If you don't read French, let me know and I'll write about the contents of the article.