Posted on 04/08/2019 3:57:31 AM PDT by Magnatron
The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.
Now things are up for grabs: Netflix buys stuff from the studios, but it’s making its own stuff, too, and it’s selling it directly to consumers. That’s one of the reasons older media companies are trying to compete by consolidating. Disney, for example, recently completed its purchase of 21st Century Fox. Distributors like AT&T, which bought Time Warner last year, are becoming media companies, too.
Meanwhile, giant tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Apple that used to be on the sidelines are getting closer and closer to the action. Apple’s newest TV strategy positions the company as a TV guide, a TV storefront selling services like HBO, and a TV creator that employs the likes of Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Anniston to make exclusive shows for Apple users.
To help sort this all out, we’ve created a diagram that organizes distributors, content companies and internet video companies by market cap — the value investors assign to the companies — and their main lines of business.
Here’s what the Big Media universe currently looks like. We will update it periodically:
(Excerpt) Read more at recode.net ...
That may have been the intent of the people who spun it off.
Agree. I just flipped Kilmeade off because he pitched for more H1B visas for Tim Cook.
THE powers that “be”.
And that’s not the half of it. Copyrights are eternal now.
If you listed out the publishing rights and trademarks on “legacy” songs/music, comic books (and characters), and tv shows and movies, you find many billions in content that will forever feed their empires.
A startup doesn’t stand a chance in the marketplace. “You” have to get a hit every time (one financial failure could ruin your fledgling company).
And while movie studios were chased out of the theater business in the middle of the 20th century, today they partner ownership in the “next generation” technology - online streaming (look at that Hulu collusion deal).
If you want to be “present” before an audience, you need to cut the competition studios in for a piece of your action. And if they don’t like your politics (in front of or behind the camera or even if your private life), well good luck. Blacklisting in Hollywood is still a thing.
That’s just the companies.
Who owns the companies, hmmm?
Amazon has a substantial streaming media presence.
Good graphic, but it omits the very most important detail:
ALL of it is owned and managed by a tribe extremely hostile to the value set that established the country —they are foreigners.
Now, many of the small number of conservatives among them are ok, even great. They played important roles, here.
But more than 80% of them are liberal and many of those are communists, and they are proud of it.
Communists good at making money..??! Yes. Because the equality part of the ideology is for YOU, not them. Free speech advocates who censor..?! Yes, because the free speech part is for them, and the censorship is for YOU. Tolerance advocates who practice intolerance..?! Yes, again.
Because they’re different. It’s complicated:
They don’t want to blow your puny mind by explaining it to you. Besides, you have to go plow your field, flip through your comic mags, or maybe wail away about Jesus and Mother Mary. You’re....on a different track.
They use this media monopoly to convince you that you’re all alone with your ideas about liberty, fair play, and God. When in fact it’s they who are less than 2% of the population. They use this media monopoly to scream orangemanbad, Russia, Russia, Russia.
For years..?! Yes, for years.
And sometimes it’s decades, if instead the message is something more like, let it all hang out, bring it all down, baby, don’t trust anyone over 30, dudes should hump dues, drug abuse is a form of sexy, funny sophistication, kill your parents, white patriarchy, you sexually harassed me, blah, blah, blah.
They go around throttling and destroying countries and the USA is far from the first in this long line of victims.
They say let me in, be nice, tolerate me, and then they take your stuff and smash it up.
And then they say you’re Hitler because they can’t stand even the tiniest form of dissent —ever.
An eternal copyright is no copyright. Such law delegitimizes itself.
Thankfully this isn't anywhere near true.
As of this year everything(some exceptions, I suppose) prior to 1924 is public domain. The cutoff was 1923 before this year. On January 1st, everything prior to 1925 will enter public domain. Each year it increases by one.
There is also plenty post 1924 work which is public domain because of copyright non-renewal. For these the challenge is finding out which are which.
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