France has many laws intended to protect their culture and the creators of French culture. For example, France is a supporter of and has implemented film quotas so that the majority of films shown in theaters&#x2F;on tv must be from France[0]:<p><pre><code>    &quot;Television Without Frontiers&quot; directive and quotas implemented by
    the French Government limit the number  of American films shown in
    French theaters and on French Television. The EU  Broadcast
    Directive was passed inOctober 1989 in an effort to protect and
    promote  the Europeancultural identity. The directiverequires that
    EU member-states reserve  a majority (51 percent) of entertainment
    broadcast transmission time for programs  of European origin.
    France lobbied hardest to pass the EU directive and has since 
    implemented the most stringent quotas within its national system.
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