Brace yourself. Streaming platforms are going to remove a lot more shows
Brace yourself. Streaming platforms are going to remove a lot more shows
The Writers Guild of America's new contract tilts streamers toward shelving content, but there's a solution emerging.
The Writers Guild of America's new contract tilts streamers toward shelving content, but there's a solution emerging.
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I feel like good government has a role in preventing this. Is access to the new Willow TV series of moral imperative? Perhaps not. But should Disney, or anyone else, be allowed to produce content for clicks with the express purpose of disintegrating it 8 weeks later? I think the audience, writers, cast, crew, and creative executives would all agree that's a no. I think only the accountants would say yes to this question.
This is the same reason that copyright exists, and why Disney has fought so hard against it all these years. Works of significant cultural value cannot be entrusted to the hands of a profit seeking cadre. And civil society has an important role in preventing that from happening. Obviously the 150 year, or whatever it is, copyright expiration is not going to save us here. But this is a very analogous fight. I think legislation has got a role to play in it.