French term (edited): pays de l'exception culturelle

"cultural exception" functions as an adjective qualifying the country, thus:

cultural exception country(-ies)

or a bit longer version:

country(-ies) claiming the cultural exception

as "the cultural exception" in the trade of "cultural goods/services" is not falling from the sky on its own - it's got to be claimed by the country wanting to protect its own culture.


L'exception culturelle est un concept en droit international et en politique culturelle.

Il s'agit d'un ensemble de dispositions visant à faire de la culture une exception dans les traités internationaux, notamment auprès de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC). Ces dispositions ont pour but de spécifier que les États sont souverains et fondés à limiter le libre-échange de la culture sur le marché pour soutenir et promouvoir leurs propres artistes, véhicules et porte-parole de leur culture.

En pratique pour la mise en place, et en principe pour l'application de ces dispositions, elles sont soutenues par 31 Coalitions nationales dans les pays suivants : Allemagne, Argentine, Australie, Belgique, Bénin, Brésil, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Canada, Chili, Colombie, Congo, Corée_du_Sud, Côte_d’Ivoire, Équateur, Espagne, France, Guinée, Hongrie, Irlande, Italie, Mali, Maroc, Mexique, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pérou, Sénégal, Slovaquie, Suisse, Togo, Uruguay. En mars 2007, à Montréal, ce sont maintenant 38 coalitions qui ont réaffirmé leur soutien à la diversité culturelle: Dotées d'un Comité international de liaison, le CIL-CDD, elles regroupent environ 400 organisations professionnelles de la culture de toutes les régions du monde.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_culturelle


Cultural exception

Cultural exception (French: l’exception culturelle) is a political concept introduced by France in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations in 1993[1] to treat culture differently from other commercial products. In other words, its purpose is to consider cultural goods and services as exceptions in international treaties and agreements especially with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Its goals are to point out that States are sovereign as far as limitation of culture free trade is concerned in order to protect and promote their artists and other elements of their culture. Concretely, it can be seen through protectionist measures limiting the diffusion of foreign artistic work (quotas) or through subventions distributed according to the country cultural policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_exception

French term (edited): pays de l\\\'exception culturelle

tough one indeed...

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Or, countries of the exception cultural.

French term (edited): pays de l\'exception culturelle

Clunky in English but it helps to add the word "policy" because 1. it is a policy adopted by governments and 2. being a French idea it is ok to flesh out the meaning in English.

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Lessons for countries with Cultural Exception policies: the situation, according to the Minister of Culture, is clear.
"These players have a place in our audiovisual ecosystem, as long as they follow our regulations."

Exception culturelle / Cultural exemption

"Concept d’origine française puis européenne qui concerne l’absence d’engagement audiovisuel et la possibilité de dérogation dans les négociations sur les services".
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/dossiers/omc/glossair...

"The concept of “cultural exemption" was introduced by France in the GATT negotiations in 1993. The goal is to protect and promote domestic artists and other elements of domestic culture, which in practice translates into protectionist measures limiting the diffusion of foreign artistic work"
https://epthinktank.eu/2014/08/29/ttip-and-the-cultural-exce...

"During the Uruguay Round, the European Union, led by France, had argued for a cultural exemption of audiovisual trade, while the United States had wanted audiovisual trade included in the GATT in order to guarantee its free trade".
https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/articles/volume17/iss...

L’ « exception culturelle » appliquée à l’audiovisuel.

"Les obligations de diffusion et d’investissement dans la production européenne que la
directive TSF introduit et que renforce le programme MEDIA, pour la fiction et le documentaire, sont assimilées à des « mesures protectionnistes » ..."
https://www.kinexpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Exception...

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or "the country which introduced the concept of cultural exemption"

French term (edited): [leçons au] pays de l'exception culturelle

France often describes itself with ironic pride that it is the nation of (the) cultural exception. It is a political concept introduced by France in the GATT negotiations, usually found in the following form: "the French cultural exception".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_exception It is usually expressed that way, with "French", although if it is obvious from the context, then another way around it will be needed.

From the source text, "au pays de" should be translated as "in the country of", but I think that "from may work better. You will know from the context of the section concerned.

As for the translation of "pays", I'd go with "land" rather than "country", as being more evocative.

A couple of other sources:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/070717/ex...

https://www.amazon.fr/French-Exception-Emmanuel-Macron-Extra...

https://www.amazon.fr/French-Exception-Emmanuel-Godin/dp/184...

Found an interesting article which discusses France's "exception culturelle." There doesn't seem to be an equivalent term in English.