Artists enter into contracts with publishers willingly. Their work is not stolen. If it was they could easily win a court case for infringement. They bargain their rights because they’re eager for a shot at money. It is very hard breakout without one, if that’s your goal. Consolidation of the networks is a completely different debate, and I agree its egregious and they need to be broken up. But no one is preventing anyone from creating a new super hero, or sci-fi universe. It happens every day, you just have to search a little harder because big networks aren’t paying millions of dollars to put some unknown indie author’s work in your social feed.
They bargain their rights because they’re eager for a shot at money. It is very hard breakout without one, if that’s your goal.
It’s incredible that you can say this and not understand that this is exactly why the relationship is coercive and gets abused.
Plenty of horrible things are legal; that is not the measure of what is good. Our entire economic system exists to benefit those with money. It’s always been that way. Can you guess who it was that decided we should have a political system that gives power to people based on how much money they have? It wasn’t poor people. Capitalism inherently drives towards monopolies.
Artists enter into contracts with publishers willingly. Their work is not stolen. If it was they could easily win a court case for infringement. They bargain their rights because they’re eager for a shot at money. It is very hard breakout without one, if that’s your goal. Consolidation of the networks is a completely different debate, and I agree its egregious and they need to be broken up. But no one is preventing anyone from creating a new super hero, or sci-fi universe. It happens every day, you just have to search a little harder because big networks aren’t paying millions of dollars to put some unknown indie author’s work in your social feed.
It’s incredible that you can say this and not understand that this is exactly why the relationship is coercive and gets abused.
Plenty of horrible things are legal; that is not the measure of what is good. Our entire economic system exists to benefit those with money. It’s always been that way. Can you guess who it was that decided we should have a political system that gives power to people based on how much money they have? It wasn’t poor people. Capitalism inherently drives towards monopolies.